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Comment author: Cyan 01 March 2010 02:04:22PM 19 points [-]

Call for examples

When I posted my case study of an abuse of frequentist statistics, cupholder wrote:

Still, the main post feels to me like a sales pitch for Bayes brand chainsaws that's trying to scare me off Neyman-Pearson chainsaws by pointing out how often people using Neyman-Pearson chainsaws accidentally cut off a limb with them.

So this is a call for examples of abuse of Bayesian statistics; examples by working scientists preferred. Let’s learn how to avoid these mistakes.

Comment author: khafra 02 March 2010 04:17:26PM 2 points [-]

Some googling around yielded a pdf about a controversial use of Bayes in court. The controversy seems to center around using one probability distribution on both sides of the equation. Lesser complaints include mixing in a frequentist test without a good reason.

Comment author: Cyan 02 March 2010 10:10:19PM 0 points [-]

That's a great find!