STATISTICAL INFERENCE AS DEFAULT REASONING
Henry E. Kyburg, Choh-Man Teng · International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence · 1999
Classical statistical inference is nonmonotonic in nature. We show how it can be formalized in the default logic framework. The structure of statistical inference is the same as that represented by default rules. In particular, the prerequisite corresponds to the sample statistics, the justifications require that we do not have any reason to believe that the sample is misleading, and the consequence corresponds to the conclusion sanctioned by the statistical test.