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		blt on July 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures I also thought it was silly, but maybe they mean that frequentist methods still have analytical solutions in some settings where Bayesian methods must resort to Monte Carlo methods?

kgwgk on July 26, 2024 [–]

Note that Bayesian methods also have analytical solutions in some settings.

There is a reason why conjugate priors were a thing.

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