frequentistn.
/ˈfriːkwəntɪst/ One who believes that the probability of an event should be defined as the limit of its relative frequency in a large number of trials. Also attributive or as adj.
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1949 M. G. Kendall in Biometrika 36 104 It might be thought that the differences between the frequentists and the non-frequentists (if I may call them such) are largely due to the difference of the domains which they purport to cover.
1965 I. Hacking Logic of Statistical Inference xiii. 227 Neither frequentists nor subjectivists have been right about probability.
1965 D. V. Lindley Introd. Probability & Statistics II. p. xi This is not the place to criticize in detail the defects of the purely frequentist approach.
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