Jake VanderPlas 6/12/2014

Frequentism and Bayesianism III: Confidence, Credibility, and why Frequentism and Science do not Mix

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This article, part of a series, delves into the philosophical and practical distinctions between frequentist and Bayesian statistics. It argues that frequentist confidence intervals answer a different question than Bayesian credible regions, and that this mismatch makes frequentism problematic for scientific applications where understanding parameter certainty is key.

Frequentism and Bayesianism III: Confidence, Credibility, and why Frequentism and Science do not Mix

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