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hawtadstoday at 3:17 AM1 replyview on HN

I think it would be interesting if frequentist stats can come up with more generative models. Current high level generative machine learning all rely on Bayesian modeling.


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jmalickitoday at 3:23 AM

I'm not well versed enough, but what would a frequentist generative model even mean?

The entire generative concept implicitly assumes that parameters have probability distributions themselves that naturally give rise to generative models...

You could do frequentist inference on a generative model, sure, but generative modelling seems fundamentally alien to frequentist thinking?

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