A comment today by Stephen Senn leads me to post the last few sentences of my (2010) paper with David Cox, “Frequentist Statistics as a Theory of Inductive Inference”: A fundamental tenet of the conception of inductive learning most at home with the frequentist philosophy is that inductive inference requires building up incisive arguments and … Continue reading The error statistician has a complex, messy, subtle, ingenious, piece-meal approach