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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Goodness-of-fit testing is a foundational component of statistical inference, providing a formal mechanism to evaluate whether observed data conform to a specified theoretical distribution.

When researchers conduct many statistical tests simultaneously, the chance of obtaining false positives increases. Traditional methods for multiple comparisons, such ...