51 points Tomte 2 days ago 8 comments
wodenokoto 1 day ago | parent
An article named “This is how we do modern frequentist statistics” is an excerpt from a book called “Bayesian workflows”
Where is the article explaining that?
Anyway, great article, thanks for sharing.
spider-mario 3 hours ago | parent
From your description, I thought “wait, is this going to be Andrew Gelman?”
It is.
(For context: https://youtu.be/ZmbrsbYwRWw )
3abiton 2 hours ago | parent
Wait a bayesian advocate using a frequentist approach and not having a fight over which branch is supreme. What's happening with the world. I guess all stats united against AI.
Tomte 2 hours ago | parent
Gelman (2018, and reiterated 2024): "Bayesians are frequentists." (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/06/17/bayesians-...)
j7ake 2 hours ago | parent
This should be automatic now in any statistical analysis given ubiquity of coding agents.
SubiculumCode 1 hour ago | parent
Where did he get the attractivess distribution, from the paper??
Tomte 1 hour ago | parent
You were just one click away from finding out:
"Figure 2. Using a sample of 2,972 respondents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, each of whom had been rated on a five-point scale of attractiveness […]"
addag 1 minute ago | parent
This technique is very useful to gain intuition for a given sample size. Just run a few simulations with uncorrelated data and then you can get a sense of how extreme the estimators can be.