Fletcher gives paper talk at Virginia Tech
Fletcher gives paper talk at Virginia Tech
- November 5, 2012
- LPS grad student discusses the nature of evidence and inference at 9th annual graduate conference
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Sam Fletcher, a fifth year graduate student in LPS, recently gave a talk entitled
"Design and Verify" at the 9th annual graduate philosophy conference hosted by the
Department of Philosophy at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
in Blacksburg, VA. Fletcher's talk focused on the status of the so-called "Likelihood
Principle," a controversial idea in statistics concerning the relationship between
data and the information relevant for statistical inference. Fletcher argued that,
despite many claims to the contrary in the philosophy of statistics literature, when
one looks at the full range of statistical methods, including methods for verifying
model design, it seems the likelihood principle is never fully satisfied by practicing
statisticians. The conference took place the weekend of November 2.
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