February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Fourth choice:
Frequentist methods (cont.)
Frequentist
methods consider the “sampling distribution” of statistics
over (conceptual) replications of the same study
·If we were
to repeat the study a large number of times (under the exact same
conditions) what would be the distribution of the statistics computed
from the samples obtained