"John Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> this is the second time I have seen this word used: "frequentist"?
> What does it mean?
``Frequentist'' is the term used by Bayesians to describe partisans of
Fisher et al's revisionist edict that ``probability'' shall be declared
to be semantically equivalent to ``frequency of events'' in some mythical
ensemble. Bayesians instead hold to the original Laplace-Bernoulli concept
that probability is a measure of one's degree of confidence in an hypothesis,
whereas the frequency of occurance of an outcome in a set of trials is a
totally independent concept that does not even live in the same space as
a probability.
-- Gordon D. Pusch
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