arXiv (Cornell University)
Extended Fiducial Inference: Toward an Automated Process of Statistical Inference
July 2024 • Faming Liang, Sehwan Kim, Yan Sun
While fiducial inference was widely considered a big blunder by R.A. Fisher, the goal he initially set --`inferring the uncertainty of model parameters on the basis of observations' -- has been continually pursued by many statisticians. To this end, we develop a new statistical inference method called extended Fiducial inference (EFI). The new method achieves the goal of fiducial inference by leveraging advanced statistical computing techniques while remaining scalable for big data. EFI involves jointly imputing r…