ciphergoth comments on A History of Bayes' Theorem - Less Wrong

53 Post author: lukeprog 29 August 2011 07:04AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 26 August 2011 07:24:29AM 11 points [-]

Eliezer argues that this difference between "many tools in the statistical toolbox" and "one mathematical law to rule them all" is actually one of the differences between the frequentist and Bayesian approaches.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 26 August 2011 05:22:24PM 2 points [-]

Thanks, I'd forgotten that post. It sums things up pretty well, I think.