On the trasductive arguments in statistics
Statistics Theory
2010-03-09 v1 Statistics Theory
Abstract
The paper argues that a part of the current statistical discussion is not based on the standard firm foundations of the field. Among the examples we consider are prediction into the future, semi-supervised classification, and causality inference based on observational data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.1513,
title = {On the trasductive arguments in statistics},
author = {Ya'acov Ritov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1513},
year = {2010}
}