Fletcher, Samuel C. (2019) Stopping Rules as Experimental Design. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 9. p. 29. ISSN 1879-4912
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Abstract
A "stopping rule" in a sequential experiment is a rule or procedure for deciding when that experiment should end. Accordingly, the "stopping rule principle" (SRP) states that, in a sequential experiment, the evidential relationship between the final data and an hypothesis under consideration does not depend on the experiment's stopping rule: the same data should yield the same evidence, regardless of which stopping rule was used. In this essay, I reconstruct and rebut five independent arguments for the SRP. Reminding oneself that the stopping rule is a part of an experiment's design and is no more mysterious than many other design aspects helps elucidate why some of these arguments for the SRP are unsound.
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| Additional Information: | This is a postprint version, i.e., pre-copyediting. | ||||||
| Keywords: | Stopping rules, Experimental Design, Statistical evidence | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Experimentation Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Depositing User: | Prof. Samuel C. Fletcher | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2020 22:52 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 May 2020 22:52 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 17233 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal for Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/s13194-019-0252-x | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Experimentation Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Date: | 3 February 2019 | ||||||
| Page Range: | p. 29 | ||||||
| Volume: | 9 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1879-4912 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17233 |
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