In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by
>democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ... which has
>essentially dominated statistical work for as long as i can remember
>(which, .... er um ... is a LOT of years!) ... is relegated to the 'we USED
>to do this stuff' category
>just THINK about this ....
>what would the vast majority of folks who either do inferential work and/or
>teach it ... DO????
>what analyses would they be doing? what would they be teaching?
What should always have been done is to use a decision approach.
This may not have been formalized that long ago, but the idea was
always there. If one looks at the overall risk as a weighted
combination of the risks for individual states, one can often
come up with procedures which are quite robust against a wide
range of specifications.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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