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Re:Ways to fix statistics by madhadron on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:05PM (#15829368)
Why become Bayesian? The rational actor theorems that drove that in the '60's turn out not to apply if you use a class of priors instead of a single prior, and single priors are overspecific to capture belief in most cases.

Better to go all the way down to decision theory.

Re:Ways to fix statistics by Bromskloss on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:34AM (#15830569)
Do you have some fuller description of, or some links to, the work you are referring to?

Also, would decision theory replace Bayesian inference? Would it not rather _use_ it?