Curiously, Beck-Bornholdt and Dubben seem (at least, in the two papers of theirs you cited) unaware of the Bayesian solution to the problem they pose. In fact, in “Potential pitfalls...”, the abstract concludes with “more care in the use of p-values in analysis and interpretation of clinical data is required”, which is a bit like saying that the patient bled to death, so more care in the use of blood-letting is required.
That may just reflect the mid-1990s, though. “Is the Pope an alien?” drew these replies in Nature (vol.382 p.480), only one of which gives the Bayesian solution, and adds that “It is a shame that Bayesian methods are not part of all introductory statistics classes.” I don’t know if they are now.
(BTW, you need to backslash the parentheses in your DOI URL to make it work with markdown.)
“It is a shame that Bayesian methods are not part of all introductory statistics classes.” I don’t know if they are now.
I’m a grad student/TA in the statistics department at Iowa State University. Bayes doesn’t make it into any of our intro classes outside of maybe introducing Bayes’ theorem… but I doubt it. It also doesn’t make it into our stat classes for non-major grad students. Some non-stat major grad students take master’s level stat courses instead. They introduce some Bayesian material depending on the prof, but not much. There is also a master’s level course in Bayesian methods, and new PhD level Bayesian courses in both methods and theory.
Relevant info: our dept. is in the top 10 in the US and so relatively typical, but it is also known for being a bastion of frequentism. Bayesians are making inroads in the department though, but intro classes at Duke, for example, might be much more Bayesian.
Curiously, Beck-Bornholdt and Dubben seem (at least, in the two papers of theirs you cited) unaware of the Bayesian solution to the problem they pose. In fact, in “Potential pitfalls...”, the abstract concludes with “more care in the use of p-values in analysis and interpretation of clinical data is required”, which is a bit like saying that the patient bled to death, so more care in the use of blood-letting is required.
That may just reflect the mid-1990s, though. “Is the Pope an alien?” drew these replies in Nature (vol.382 p.480), only one of which gives the Bayesian solution, and adds that “It is a shame that Bayesian methods are not part of all introductory statistics classes.” I don’t know if they are now.
(BTW, you need to backslash the parentheses in your DOI URL to make it work with markdown.)
I’m a grad student/TA in the statistics department at Iowa State University. Bayes doesn’t make it into any of our intro classes outside of maybe introducing Bayes’ theorem… but I doubt it. It also doesn’t make it into our stat classes for non-major grad students. Some non-stat major grad students take master’s level stat courses instead. They introduce some Bayesian material depending on the prof, but not much. There is also a master’s level course in Bayesian methods, and new PhD level Bayesian courses in both methods and theory.
Relevant info: our dept. is in the top 10 in the US and so relatively typical, but it is also known for being a bastion of frequentism. Bayesians are making inroads in the department though, but intro classes at Duke, for example, might be much more Bayesian.