February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Fourth choice:
Frequentist methods (cont.)
We do not
usually have enough data to know what would happen if we repeated the
study under the true setting, but we can often guess what would happen
under specific hypotheses
Hence,
frequentists characterize the sampling distribution under specific
hypotheses and compare the observed data to what might reasonably
have been obtained if that hypothesis were true