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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Distinguishing between various possibilities is fundamental to the scientific method and the process of discovery and categorization. As such, mathematical methods underlying distinguishability have ...