Re:Ways to fix statistics
by rocqua on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:18AM
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What informs your priors?
That is the core issue with practical applications of Bayesian statistics. Especially because it is a totally new parameter that people can complain about. At best this leads to rampant bikeshedding, at worst we get prior-hacking as opposed to p-hacking.
That is the core issue with practical applications of Bayesian statistics. Especially because it is a totally new parameter that people can complain about. At best this leads to rampant bikeshedding, at worst we get prior-hacking as opposed to p-hacking.