jsteinhardt comments on Original Research on Less Wrong - Less Wrong

21 Post author: lukeprog 29 October 2012 10:50PM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 31 October 2012 04:31:10PM 0 points [-]

While some frequentist methods do use likelihoods, the mapping from likelihood to p-value is non-linear, so multiplying them would still be a mistake, at least as far as I can tell.