Is Frequentist Testing Vulnerable to the Base-Rate Fallacy?

This article calls into question the charge that frequentist testing is susceptible to the base-rate fallacy. It is argued that the apparent similarity between examples like the Harvard Medical School test and frequentist testing is highly misleading. A closer scrutiny reveals that such examples hav...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 4; pp. 565 - 584
Main Author:	Spanos, Aris
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Oct2010
Subjects:	Base rate fallacies Harvard Medical School Resemblance (Philosophy) Statistical sampling Statistical correlation Probability theory
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost