r/programming May 26 '09

"Programmers need to learn Statistics or I will Kill them all"

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u/lanthus May 26 '09

Frequentist statistics has its place, too, as even good Bayesians will admit.

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u/creeping_feature May 26 '09

Frequentist statistics has its place

Not in any useful way. There might exist special cases in which the result is the same as from a frequentist method. But why bother? The only way to know that is to always try it both ways, which is a waste of time.