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- noun mathematics An advocate of frequency probability
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A compelling proof of how unnatural it is to think in frequentist terms is to teach introductory statistics.
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Bayesian estimation is a system of statistical theory that deviates from the more widely employed system (called frequentist statistics) in a number of imprtant ways.
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Bayesian estimation is a system of statistical theory that deviates from the more widely employed system (called frequentist statistics) in a number of imprtant ways.
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- is called the frequentist approach, and it can bamboozle.
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- is called the frequentist approach, and it can bamboozle.
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- is called the frequentist approach, and it can bamboozle.
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Computing sample size using the dominant statistical "frequentist" paradigm does not consider the number of patients in the target population.
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He concluded that Moore was able to impose general rules upon concrete actions by employing an empirical or "frequentist" theory of probability, that is, through observation of empirical frequencies we could have certain knowledge of the probabilities of classes of events.
Mises Dailies 2009
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Susskind might want to consult Simon Saunders then, where he comments on relative frequency (frequentist) and subjective (Bayesian) interpretations of probability and their QM relationship; perhaps bringing, at long last, warring sides together?
Unprovable Speculations, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The point is that in a deterministic universe, the non-frequentist “true probability” of a given coin flip coming up heads is either 1 or 0.
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy 2010
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