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> Frequentist statistics is basically Bayesian statistics done with a "flat" prior distribution I disagree strongly - there’s a huge difference in the kind of
by gbrown 7y ago
> Frequentist statistics is basically Bayesian statistics done with a "flat" prior distribution
I disagree strongly - there’s a huge difference in the kind of inference which is provided by each paradigm. To oversimplify, frequentist statistics constructs decision rules with good properties concerning unknown (but fixed) parameters, while Bayesian statistics uses probability to directly reason about those parameters. Confidence and credible intervals are not the same thing - you’re actually flipping what’s considered fixed and random.