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Research on Safe Withdrawal Rates

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Hi John R.,

Maybe it would be helpful if you could write down exactly what questions you are trying to answer here. For example, do you have a null hypothesis about what the SWR is? I don't...

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Post by JWR1945 »

For Bpp:

I am much happier presenting a two-sided 90% confidence level along with a footnote that explains that the confidence level is 95% when using a strictly one-sided interpretation than I am when I give the results from a one-sided test and then having to explain away the (apparent) contradiction to the average person.

You are correct in the sense that a discussion strictly limited to Safe Withdrawal Rates would identify the confidence level as 95%.

The difficulty is that all three rates are important: the Calculate Rate, the Safe Withdrawal Rate and the High Risk Rate. This suggests that I am really interested in knowing whether the data are consistent with the Calculated Rate, not whether a rate is safe.

Have fun,

John R.
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Fair enough.

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