Measuring Statistical Evidence: A Short Report

Abstract

This short text tried to establish a big picture of what evidential statistics is about and how an ideal inference method should behave. Moreover, by examining shortcomings of some of the currently used methods for measuring evidence and utilizing some intuitive principles, we motivated the Relative Belief Ratio as the primary method of characterizing statistical evidence. Number of topics has been omitted for the interest of this text and the reader is strongly advised to refer to (Evans, 2015) as the primary source for further readings of the subject.