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.