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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 June 2015 06:40:36AM 0 points [-]

In what sense is minimax frequentist?

Comment author: jsteinhardt 26 June 2015 07:38:12AM *  0 points [-]

From Wikipedia:

Consider the problem of estimating a deterministic (not Bayesian) parameter...

ETA: While that page talks about estimating parameters, most of the math holds for more general actions as well.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 June 2015 04:45:07PM 0 points [-]

I don't think that "non-bayesian" is a common definition of "frequentist." In any event, it's not a useful category.

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