Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 3:12:51 PM, you wrote: FEHJ> Want to open up the floodgates? Some personal opinions:
FEHJ> - Alpha=0.05 is arbitrary, silly, and boring FEHJ> - Reporting P and letting the reader decide is a bit better FEHJ> - Bayesian posterior probabilities are still better although FEHJ> more thinking is required FEHJ> - Confidence limits can be good compromise solutions (some journals are FEHJ> almost disallowing P-values in favor of CLs) FEHJ> - P-values are dangerous, especially large, small, and in-between ones. FEHJ> See http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/teaching/bayes.short.course.pdf for a full sermon. Hello, I'm very interested in differences between bayesian and frequentist decision making. The only source of knowledge about Bayesian approach I have is: James O. Berger "Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis" Springer-Verlag 1985 Could you point me to some books/articles that will explain differences between those approaches. The explanation in the book above is not satisfying (for me). I'm especially very interested in the `philosophical' grounds, that constitute Bayesian approach. Thank you in advance. Michal ~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~ Michał Bojanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************r-e-k-l-a-m-a************** Masz dość płacenia prowizji bankowi ? mBank - załóż konto http://epieniadze.onet.pl/mbank ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
