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57 Post author: gwern 21 December 2012 04:45AM

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Comment author: Tenoke 21 December 2012 12:43:36PM 2 points [-]

And yet even you who are more against frequentist statistics than most (Given that you are even writing this among other things on the topic) inevitably use the frequentist tools. What I'd be interested in is a good and short(as short as it can be) summary of what methods should be followed to remove as many of the problems of frequentist statistics with properly defined cut-offs for p-values and everything else, where can we fully adapt Bayes, where we can minimize the problems of the frequentist tools and so on. You know, something that I can use on its own to interpret the data if I am to conduct an experiment today the way that currently seems best.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 21 December 2012 03:51:00PM -1 points [-]

'Frequentist tools' are common approximations, loaded with sometimes-applicable interpretations. A Bayesian can use the same approximation, even under the same name, and yet not be diving into Frequentism.