Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense
by scotty79 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:47AM
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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.
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Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense
by kgwgk on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:33AM
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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).