MatthewW comments on Bayesian analysis under threat in British courts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tut 11 October 2011 05:43:33PM 0 points [-]

No statistics at all.

Or to be a bit more precise: If you have good enough data to do anything useful with frequentist methods then you may use bayesian reasoning as well. What the judge forbade is using bayes to sound scientific when you can't back up your priors.

Comment author: MatthewW 16 October 2011 09:04:08PM 1 point [-]

Priors don't come into it. The expert was presenting likelihood ratios directly (though in an obscure form of words).