Seminar - Getting the precisions right
School of Mathematics and Statistics Research Seminar
Speaker: Professor Murray Aitkin (The University of Melbourne)
Time:
Tuesday 7th June 2022 at 02:00 PM -
03:00 PM
Location:
Cotton Club,
Cotton 350
URL: https://researchers.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~maitkin@unimelb/
Groups:
"Mathematics"
"Statistics and Operations Research"
Abstract
This talk uses the bootstrap to illustrate the difficulties of "model-free" inference without a probability model for the sampled data. Two simple examples show that the bootstrap procedure for confidence intervals does not have any theoretical basis
