A nonmanipulable test

Wojciech Olszewski*, Alvaro Sandroni

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A test is said to control for type I error if it is unlikely to reject the datagenerating process. However, if it is possible to produce stochastic processes at random such that, for all possible future realizations of the data, the selected process is unlikely to be rejected, then the test is said to be manipulable. So, a manipulable test has essentially no capacity to reject a strategic expert. Many tests proposed in the existing literature, including calibration tests, control for type I error but are manipulable. We construct a test that controls for type I error and is nonmanipulable.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1013-1039
Number of pages27
JournalAnnals of Statistics
Volume37
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2009

Keywords

  • Calibration
  • Model diagnostics
  • Test manipulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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