February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Session 1- Fixed Sample Design: 72
Standards for Statistical Evidence
None yet agreed upon, but…
The concept of having confidence in your conclusions exists in both Bayesian and frequentist inference
·Both Bayesian credible intervals and frequentist confidence intervals satisfy frequentist coverage criteria
In either type of inference, it seems reasonable to use a consistent definition of “rejection” of hypotheses
·Use of credible interval or confidence interval
·Frequentist tests: equal type I and type II errors