frequentist
Speech parts
1. frequentist - Noun
2. frequentist - Adjective
Meaning
frequentist (plural frequentists)
(mathematics) An advocate of frequentism.
Synonym: frequentionist
frequentist (comparative more frequentist, superlative most frequentist)
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to frequentism.
Synonym: frequentionist
Examples
All valued objectivity, so the best interpretation of probability available to them was frequentist.
Alternatively, citation Jacob Bernoulli (AKA James or Jacques) understood the concept of frequentist probability and published a critical proof (the weak law of large numbers) posthumously in 1713.
By considering the dataset's characteristics under repeated sampling, the frequentist properties of a statistical proposition can be quantified—although in practice this quantification may be challenging.
In frequentist inference, randomization allows inferences to be based on the randomization distribution rather than a subjective model, and this is important especially in survey sampling and design of experiments.
The following generation established the tools of classical inferential statistics (significance testing, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals) all based on frequentist probability.
Historians can interpret the example as classical, frequentist or subjective probability.