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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 ...

where p is the p-value) 2. The S-value expresses the self-information given by the datasets with respect to the null-hypothesis rather than a probability or evidence against it. However, the S-value, ...