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Given your clarification... The two methodologies can give somewhat different results, but not as often as you might think, and the differences aren't as large
by jme3 14y ago
Given your clarification...
The two methodologies can give somewhat different results, but not as often as you might think, and the differences aren't as large as you might think. In my experience, the instances where you get radically different answers from Bayesian/Frequentist methods are quite rare, and tend toward the pathological example invented purely to demonstrate the "superiority" of one over the other.
That said, sometimes one or the other are significantly more convenient or easy to apply for a given model or type of data.
- StavrosK 14y agoI see, thanks. Are the differences hard to reconcile, given that we can do Monte Carlo on a model and see whose predictions are correct? I'm just annoyed by there being two camps in science, where one gets slightly different results from the other. It seems to me that one is obviously wrong, since there's only one truth.
- JonnieCache 14y ago> It seems to me that one is obviously wrong, since there's only one truth. A bold claim.
- StavrosK 14y agohttp://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth
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- scrame 14y agoYou think that's bad, you should check out physics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything Statistics is more about data sets and interpretation than "right" vs. "wrong".