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As far as I know, Bayes came first and Fisher later, so some may say the analogy is the other way round.
by lottin 11y ago
As far as I know, Bayes came first and Fisher later, so some may say the analogy is the other way round.
- david_ar 11y agoThat's true, but Bayesian methods were handicapped by a lack of computational resources for quite a long time. Modern Bayesian methods, although fundamentally the same, are in practice quite different today compared to a century ago. Frequentist statistics gained popularity because it was more tractable to apply to complex problems until computational technology caught up. Edit: one can argue that frequentist methods are generally approximations to Bayesian methods, much like Newton vs Einstein