In the frequentist approach to inference, statistical procedures are assessed by their performance over a hypothetical long run of repetitions of a process deemed to have generated the data.
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"It was the correct play even though I lost"
*sorry if this isn't the right SE community, maybe it's more philosophical*
You often hear this refrain in games like Poker or Hearthstone. The idea is that making play A this game resulted in a loss, but always making play A in the long run/limit…
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Is Statistical Significance only a concept in Frequentist statistics - not Bayesian statisticians?
Statistical significance is denoted to occur when:
In statistical hypothesis testing, statistical significance (or a statistically significant result) is attained when a p-value is less than the significance level (denoted α, alpha)
(According to…
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Contemporary Frequentists?
My background is Bayesian. I know who to turn to for foundational discussion on this school of thought. To writers like MacKay, Gelman and Jaynes.
Who do I turn to for a recent exposition of frequentist thought? I want a (fairly) thorough account…
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How do you solve Bayes' Billiards game with frequentist statistics?
The problem goes like this:
Alice and Bob are playing a game that they cannot directly observe. The game starts with a referee rolling a ball on a billiard table and marking the location where it comes to rest. Once the initial location is marked,…
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Frequentist interpretation of probability for different/multiple experiments
Suppose I have a population of interest, let's say P1, I obtain data through a sample, D1 and obtain a 95% confidence interval on a parameter value of interest, CI1. The interpretation of the probability is clear - it is the long run frequency of…
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How would frequentists reason about the sunrise problem if forced to abandon the 'many worlds' assumption?
I think the 'many worlds' assumption is much more than a technicality yet it has no solid theoretical foundations. The sunrise problem asks for the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow given that the sun has previously risen on $(N-1)$…
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Why does frequentist statistics have a reputation for not giving uncertainty?
We can compute confidence intervals in frequentist statistics. That gives us an indicator on how uncertain our estimate is. I've read numerous times that Bayesian statistics is way better because we can interpret the uncertainty of our model by…
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