This paper is an extended review of the book Error and Inference, edited by Deborah Mayo and Aris Spanos, about their frequentist and philosophical perspective on testing of hypothesis and on the criticisms of alternatives like the Bayesian approach. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New...

If, in the mid 1980's, one had asked the average statistician about the difficulties of using Bayesian Statistics, his/her most likely answer would have been"Well, there is this problem of selecting a prior distribution and then, even if one agrees on the prior, the whole Bayesian inference is...