Discussion of "On the Birnbaum Argument for the Strong Likelihood Principle"

2014/11/04 by Jan F. Bjørnstad · 1 citation
Mathematics · #stat.ME

paper · pdf · doi:10.1214/14-sts475

published as Statistical Science 2014, Vol. 29, No. 2, 259-260 · Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-STS475 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

arxiv created 2014/11/04 · arxiv updated 2014/11/05

Abstract

The paper by Mayo claims to provide a new clarification and critique of Birnbaum's argument for showing that sufficiency and conditionality principles imply the likelihood principle. However, much of the arguments go back to arguments made thirty to forty years ago. Also, the main contention in the paper, that Birnbaum's arguments are not valid, seems to rest on a misunderstanding. [arXiv:1302.7021]

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