2012/08/10 by Maarten H. P. Ambaum, Ambaum, Maarten H. P.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistics Education and Methodologies #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #physics.ao-ph #physics.data-an
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1208.2141
4 pages
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People who by training end up dealing with probabilities ("statisticians") roughly fall into one of two camps. One is either a frequentist or a Bayesian. To a scientist, who needs to use probabilities to make sense of the real world, this division seems sometimes baffling. I will argue that science mostly deals with Bayesian questions. Yet the dominance of frequentist ideas in statistics points many scientists in the wrong statistical direction.