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Inflammatory Assertion
(Semi)parametric
models are not typically in keeping with the state of knowledge as
an experiment is being conducted
•The assumptions are
more detailed than the hypothesis being tested, e.g.,
–Question: How does the
intervention affect the first moment of the probability
distribution?
–Assumption: We know
how the intervention affects the 2nd, 3rd, …, ∞ central
moments of the probability distribution.