CronoDAS comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Cyan 21 February 2010 06:35AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 21 February 2010 02:21:04PM 21 points [-]

Frequentist statistics is the attempt to do probabilistic inference without using a prior.

Without acknowledging a prior.

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 February 2010 03:31:10AM 4 points [-]

Yes; in Bayesian terms, many frequentist testing methods tend to implicitly assume a prior of 50% for the null hypothesis.