We have huge number of questions about Bayesian vs frequentist approaches (913 in fast search), so maybe we should have separate tag for it..? I know that we already have [bayesian] and [frequentist] tags, but since endless comparisons, maybe single tag would be helpful? I guess it could make searching (including searching for duplicates) easier. I imagine that this may be controversial, but what do you think?
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Rather not.
While I agree that such a tag could be useful, it seems that the combination of bayesian and frequentist tags serves more or less the same purpose. There are 95 threads tagged with these two tags together, see https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bayesian+frequentist, and looking through them it seems that most could in principle qualify for [bayesian-vs-frequentist].
That's why I think such a tag is not particularly needed: we already have its functionality.
In addition, its very name would imply some amount of confrontation, and I doubt this would be beneficial for our forum.
answered Aug 21 '16 at 21:34
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$\begingroup$ I do not agree with the argument about "confrontational" nature of such tag. In general such questions confront the two approaches so such tag would have descriptive meaning. $\endgroup$ – Tim♦ Aug 23 '16 at 7:30
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$\begingroup$ But do you agree with my "main" argument, @Tim? $\endgroup$ – amoeba says Reinstate Monica Aug 23 '16 at 13:55
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$\begingroup$ I neither agree, nor disagree :) On one hand, you are right that it is redundant. On another, it could help with finding the relevant threads. $\endgroup$ – Tim♦ Aug 23 '16 at 14:00
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1$\begingroup$ There is a difference between "compare and contrast" and "confront". But on balance I'd concur that the intersection of the existing tags probably suffices for now. I can, though, imagine a point in the future at which we want to distinguish "threads where both frequentist and Bayesian methods are mentioned" (which may be great in number) and "threads where the juxtaposition and contradistinction of frequentist and Bayesian methods forms the very heart of the question" (which may be a minority of the aforementioned cases). In that case a separate tag may become desirable. $\endgroup$ – Silverfish Aug 29 '16 at 21:11
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$\begingroup$ @Silverfish That's a good point. I am not strongly against such a tag; if somebody were to create it and curate it thoughtfully (write a wiki excerpt, populate it with relevant questions, etc.), I would not mind at all. (However, I guess that after my answer got 6 upvotes, it would make sense to first post this more explicitly here as an alternative answer; otherwise such an action might seem as going against the popular vote.) $\endgroup$ – amoeba says Reinstate Monica Aug 29 '16 at 23:11
bayesian frequentist is:questionyields 287 questions. $\endgroup$ – amoeba says Reinstate Monica Aug 16 '16 at 19:15