12 questions linked to/from Who Are The Bayesians?
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### What's wrong with XKCD's Frequentists vs. Bayesians comic?

This xkcd comic (Frequentists vs. Bayesians) makes fun of a frequentist statistician who derives an obviously wrong result. However it seems to me that his reasoning is actually correct in the sense ...
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### When (if ever) is a frequentist approach substantively better than a Bayesian?

Background: I do not have an formal training in Bayesian statistics (though I am very interested in learning more), but I know enough--I think--to get the gist of why many feel as though they are ...
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### Where did the frequentist-Bayesian debate go?

The world of statistics was divided between frequentists and Bayesians. These days it seems everyone does a bit of both. How can this be? If the different approaches are suitable for different ...
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### What is Bayes' theorem all about?

What are the main ideas, that is, concepts related to Bayes' theorem? I am not asking for any derivations of complex mathematical notation.
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### What exactly is a Bayesian model?

Can I call a model wherein Bayes' Theorem is used a "Bayesian model"? I am afraid such a definition might be too broad. So what exactly is a Bayesian model?
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### Relation between MAP, EM, and MLE

I am a beginner in machine learning. I can do programming fine but the theory confuses me a lot of the times. What is the relation between Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), Maximum A posteriori (...
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### Do frequentists and Bayesians use different hypothesis tests?

In a basic refresher course on stats, they covered Z-tests, T-tests from a practical perspective: they described the assumptions for each test, and "let the software packages do their job" - as an ...
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### Role of the Objective Prior in the Unification of Bayesian and Frequentists

On a recent post asking about self-identified Bayesians (most comprehensive list: ISBA) there were great answers, yet little was mentioned about the drive towards unification. Except from Andrew ...
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### The difference between the Frequentist, Bayesian and Fisherian appraoches to statistical inference [duplicate]

I'm just trying to get my head around the differences between these three approaches to statistical inference. I'm just not entirely sure what the significant differences are between the three.
In a number of statistics books and references you can find formulas such as: $P\,(result~|~H_0)$ (Bortz, p. 114) $P\,(reject~H_0\;|\;H_0~valid)$ (Wikipedia - Statistical hypothesis testing) and ...