Frequentist vs Bayesian statistics - a non-statisticians view
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2012-08-13 v1 Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract
People who by training end up dealing with probabilities ("statisticians") roughly fall into one of two camps. One is either a frequentist or a Bayesian. To a scientist, who needs to use probabilities to make sense of the real world, this division seems sometimes baffling. I will argue that science mostly deals with Bayesian questions. Yet the dominance of frequentist ideas in statistics points many scientists in the wrong statistical direction.
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@article{arxiv.1208.2141,
title = {Frequentist vs Bayesian statistics - a non-statisticians view},
author = {Maarten H. P. Ambaum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2141},
year = {2012}
}
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