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Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by wodenokoto on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:30AM (#49708526)
An article named “This is how we do modern frequentist statistics” is an excerpt from a book called “Bayesian workflows”

Where is the article explaining that?

Anyway, great article, thanks for sharing.

Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by spider-mario on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:41AM (#49726080)
From your description, I thought “wait, is this going to be Andrew Gelman?”

It is.

(For context: https://youtu.be/ZmbrsbYwRWw )

Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by 3abiton on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:27AM (#49726726)
Wait a bayesian advocate using a frequentist approach and not having a fight over which branch is supreme. What's happening with the world. I guess all stats united against AI.
Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by Tomte on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:56AM (#49727128)
Gelman (2018, and reiterated 2024): "Bayesians are frequentists." (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/06/17/bayesians-...)
Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by beckford on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:06PM (#49734259)
As mentioned in the sibling comments, Andrew Gelman has covered this elsewhere. In particular, Gelman et al have a "Model Checking" chapter in their Bayesian Data Analysis book https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/book/BDA3.pdf . A popular intro Bayesian book Statistical Rethinking has a similar "Sampling from the Imaginary" chapter (https://civil.colorado.edu/~balajir/CVEN6833/bayes-resources...). Both books introduce the topic early (the latter book deals with it in the third chapter) if you are willing to do a bit of reading.
Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by j7ake on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:59AM (#49727164)
This should be automatic now in any statistical analysis given ubiquity of coding agents.
Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by SubiculumCode on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:27AM (#49727568)
Where did he get the attractivess distribution, from the paper??
Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by Tomte on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:32AM (#49727655)
You were just one click away from finding out:

"Figure 2. Using a sample of 2,972 respondents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, each of whom had been rated on a five-point scale of attractiveness […]"

Re:We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simu... by addag on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:08PM (#49729160)
This technique is very useful to gain intuition for a given sample size. Just run a few simulations with uncorrelated data and then you can get a sense of how extreme the estimators can be.