Your health research lecturer has devoted the past ten weeks to teaching you the Bayesian approach and is now asking that you offer a critique of it. What key criticism could you raise?
A) The lack of reliance on a prior probability is overly subjective and therefore can be open to a researcher's degrees of freedom.
B) The lack of reliance on a null hypothesis is overly objective and therefore open to a researcher's degrees of freedom.
C) The reliance on a prior probability is overly objective and therefore not open to a researcher's degrees of freedom.
D) The reliance on a prior probability is overly subjective and therefore can be open to a researcher's degrees of freedom.

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The key criticism of Bayesian approach is that it relies on prior probability, which can be overly subjective and therefore open to a researcher's degrees of freedom. This means that the results obtained from a Bayesian analysis can be influenced by the researcher's personal beliefs and opinions, leading to biased outcomes. In contrast, frequentist approach relies on a null hypothesis, which is more objective and less prone to researcher bias.

Your Health Research Lecturer Has Devoted the Past Ten Weeks