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

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Comment author: gwern 21 December 2012 04:53:40PM 5 points [-]

inevitably use the frequentist tools.

No, I don't. My self-experiments have long focused on effect sizes (an emphasis which is very easy to do without disruptive changes), and I have been using BEST as a replacement for t-tests for a while, only including an occasional t-test as a safety blanket for my frequentist readers.

If non-NHST frequentism or even full Bayesianism were taught as much as NHST and as well supported by software like R, I don't think it would be much harder to use.

Comment author: ahh 28 December 2012 07:54:18AM 1 point [-]

I can't find BEST (as a statistical test or similar...) on Google. What test do you refer to?

Comment author: gwern 28 December 2012 04:38:37PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: [deleted] 22 December 2012 02:32:19AM 0 points [-]

If non-NHST frequentism

That'd be essentially Bayesianism with the (uninformative improper) priors (uniform for location parameters and logarithms of scale parameters) swept under the rug, right?

Comment author: jsteinhardt 25 December 2012 02:04:12AM 1 point [-]

Not at all (I wrote a post refuting this a couple months ago but can't link it from my phone)

Comment author: gwern 25 December 2012 10:16:52PM 4 points [-]
Comment author: jsteinhardt 26 December 2012 06:10:43AM 2 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: gwern 22 December 2012 03:51:43AM 1 point [-]

I really couldn't presume to say.