Non-Bayesian testing of a stochastic prediction

被引:34
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作者
Dekel, Eddie [1 ]
Feinberg, Yossi
机构
[1] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
来源
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES | 2006年 / 73卷 / 04期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00401.x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We propose a method to test a prediction of the distribution of a stochastic process. In a non-Bayesian, non-parametric setting, a predicted distribution is tested using a realization of the stochastic process. A test associates a set of realizations for each predicted distribution, on which the prediction passes, so that if there are no type I errors, a prediction assigns probability 1 to its test set. Nevertheless, these test sets can be "small", in the sense that "most" distributions assign it probability 0, and hence there are "few" type II errors. It is also shown that there exists such a test that cannot be manipulated, in the sense that an uninformed predictor, who is pretending to know the true distribution, is guaranteed to fail on an uncountable number of realizations, no matter what randomized prediction he employs. The notion of a small set we use is category I, described in more detail in the paper.
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页码:893 / 906
页数:14
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