frequentism
English
Etymology
From frequent + -ism.
Noun
frequentism (uncountable)
- An interpretation of probability in terms of frequency, often specifically as the limit of the relative frequency of an event as the sample size approaches infinity.
- 2007 October 30, Margherita Benzi, “Maria Carla Galavotti, Philosophical Introduction to Probability”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, DOI: :
- Galavotti regards this as an open problem, as some passages from his Philosophical Papers seem to suggest that Ramsey, like Carnap, admitted two notions of probability: one epistemic and subjective, and one empirical and close to frequentism.
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Coordinate terms
- Bayesianism
Related terms
- frequentist
- frequentistic