Game-theoretic statistics and safe anytime-valid inferenceSafe anytime-valid inference (SAVI) provides measures of statistical evidence
and certainty -- e-processes for testing and confidence sequences for
estimation -- that remain valid at all stopping times, accommodating continuous
monitoring and analysis of accumulating data and optional stopping or
continuation for any reason. These measures are based on test martingales,
which are nonnegative martingales starting at one. Since a test martingale is
the wealth process of a player in a betting game, SAVI uses game-theoretic
intuition, language and mathematics. This survey reports some recent advances
in testing composite hypotheses and estimating functionals in nonparametric
settings, leading to new methods even for nonsequential problems.
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