This approach is especially useful in finance when testing hypotheses, such as an investment outperforming the market. If the data falls in the critical region, statisticians reject the null ...

During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

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