Mayo’s Error Statistics as a case study in the inevitability of Bayes

(This article was originally published at Entsophy, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

Cox’s Theorem implies that we either use Bayes or our methods will violate some simple but desirable properties. This has two consequences: (1) Frequentist methods such as p-values, which aren’t equivalent to posteriors, are guaranteed to be disasters some of the time, and (2) Any partially successful attempt to fix those problems moves you closer […]

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