It is Time to Stop Teaching Frequentism to Non-statisticians
2012/01/12 by William M. Briggs, Briggs, William M. · 7 voices
Mathematics · #Computer science #Statistics Education and Methodologies #stat.OT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.2590
arxiv created 2012/01/12 · openalex publication_date 2012/01/12 · arxiv updated 2012/01/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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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