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  "path": "/t/change-the-range-not-the-language-on-confidence-intervals/27740#post_20",
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  "textContent": "What do you think of broadening the discussion from a single interval to the set of “confidence” intervals, leading to confidence distributions?\n\nI agree that the Bayesian perspective is more natural and relevant, but frequentist reports are common, and I think it is important to understand how to interpret them on their own terms.\n\nConfidence distributions, accoring to Pawitan, have an interpretation as an “extended likelihood” ie. a likelihood that partially accounts for its uncertainty. A more precise definition is given in the paper.\n\n**Pawitan, Y., & Lee, Y. (2021).** Confidence as likelihood. Statistical Science, 36(4), 509-517. (PDF)",
  "title": "Change the range not the language on confidence intervals"
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