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> A summary of standard non-Bayesian criticisms of common frequentist statistical practices, with pointers into the academic literature. …

x Against NHST — LessWrong Bayes' Theorem Probability & Statistics Frontpage 94 Against NHST by gwern 21st Dec 2012 5 min read 66 94 A summary of standard non-Bayesian criticisms of common frequentist statistical practices, with pointers into the academic literature. Frequentist statistics is a wide field, but in practice by innumerable psychologists, biologists, economists etc, frequentism tends to be a particular style called “Null Hypothesis Significance Testing” (NHST) descended from R.A. Fisher (as opposed to eg. Neyman-Pearson) which is focused on setting up a null hypothesis and an alte

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