Hacker News .hnnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | prandalr's commentslogin

Frequentists are Bayesians who use a uniform prior.


And refuse to serially update it ;-)

Which is why no working statistician is really 100% Bayesian (intractable in many cases) or 100% frequentist (obviously wrong in some cases). We all use Bayes' Rule (don't need to be "a Bayesian" to do that) and we all are forced to do Newman-Pearson-style power calculations now and then (holds nose). Even the latter have their uses, in preventing the worst of the worst abuses of frequentist techniques (it's not frequentism that is inherently bad per se, it's the profound abuses that turn it into a magnet for bad science; sometimes a Bayesian formulation of a problem is simply intractable).


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: