Statistics Seminar: Kabaila -- Valid inference after preliminary statistical model selection

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               *       STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES - 2007     *
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           Valid inference after preliminary statistical model selection 

                     Paul Kabaila (La Trobe University) 
 
                         Friday, 8 June, 2.00pm 

                               Carslaw 373 

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It is common in applied statistics to carry out a preliminary
model selection using e.g. AIC, BIC or hypothesis tests. This is usually
followed by the statistical inference of interest, using the same data,
based on the assumption that the selected model had been given to us a
priori. This assumption is false and it leads to invalid inferences.
Breiman (1992) calls this "a quiet scandal in the statistical
community". The purpose of the talk is to (a) describe the depth of this
scandal and (b) to describe the speaker’s proposed solution to this
problem.


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