Likelihoodist

A Likelihoodist is a statistician that ...

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Bayesian.
  • a Frequentist.
• See: Likelihood Probability, Likelihood-based Inference.

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References

2007

• (Branden, 2007) ⇒ Branden Fitelson. (2007). “Likelihoodism, Bayesianism, and Relational Confirmation.” In: Synthese, 156(3). doi:10.1007/s11229-006-9134-9
  • ABSTRACT: Likelihoodists and Bayesians seem to have a fundamental disagreement about the proper probabilistic explication of relational (or contrastive) conceptions of evidential support (or confirmation).

1991

• (Tanner, 1991) ⇒ Martin A. Tanner. (1991). “Methods for the Exploration of Posterior Distributions and Likelihood Functions" In: "Tools for statistical inference." ISBN:978-1-4684-0194-3
  • QUOTE: … The frequentist, in contrast to the Bayesians or to the likelihoodists (ie those who do base … at the mode are of great value to the frequentist's large sample (normal-based) inference approach … Thus, while to the Bayesian or to the likelihoodist tools such as data augmentation, Gibbs …

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