spootze·2 lata temu·discussRegarding the frequentist vs bayesian debates, my slightly provocative take on these three cultures is- subjective Bayes is the strawman that frequentist academics like to attack- objective Bayes is a naive self-image that many Bayesian academics tend to possess- pragmatic Bayes is the approach taken by practitioners that actually apply statistics to something (or in Gelman’s terms, do science)
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- subjective Bayes is the strawman that frequentist academics like to attack
- objective Bayes is a naive self-image that many Bayesian academics tend to possess
- pragmatic Bayes is the approach taken by practitioners that actually apply statistics to something (or in Gelman’s terms, do science)