Review discusses the criticisms of frequentist statistics in scientific research, highlighting its credibility in the social sciences.
The Spring 2025 issue of Academic Questions contained a review by William M. Briggs suggesting that social scientists discard “frequentist” statistics, which in his view has badly degraded the credibility of scientific research. Here, physician and medical researcher Dr. Ernest B. Hook writes to defend frequentist or “classical” statistics, and Mr. Briggs provides a response.
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