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Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense by alexilliamson on Monday December 25, 2023 @11:15PM (#38768867)
The end results of any statistical exercise (frequentist or Bayesian) depend on something assumed.
Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense by scotty79 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:47AM (#38770298)
Frequentist approach gives you something solid and independent of assumptions. Probability of observing this particular dataset accidentally if there was no change between two contexts.
Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense by kgwgk on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:33AM (#38770521)
On the positive side, the frequentist approach doesn’t need assumptions about the pre-data probability of the thing of interest.

On the negative side, the frequentist approach doesn’t produce a post-data probability for the thing of interest either.

It provides the probability of something else - as you mention - which can also be interesting but it’s not what people really would like to know (as the generalized misinterpretation of the meaning of frequentist results makes clear).