It is Time to Stop Teaching Frequentism to Non-statisticians
William M. Briggs
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Abstract
We should cease teaching frequentist statistics to undergraduates and switch to Bayes. Doing so will reduce the amount of confusion and over-certainty rife among users of statistics.
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Article is from 2012, compare [0] and [1]. The pdf got replaced for some reason (bug, sensitive information in the meta or idk), but the article seems to have stayed the same, except the date. [0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2590v1.pdf [1]…
Article is from 2012, compare [0] and [1]. The pdf got replaced for some reason (bug, sensitive information in the meta or idk), but the article seems to have stayed the same, except the date. [0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.2590v1.pdf [1]…
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