While preparing a book chapter, I checked on Google Ngram viewer the comparative uses of the words Bayesian (blue), maximum likelihood (red) and frequentist (yellow), producing the above (screen-copy quality, I am afraid!). It shows an increase of the use of the B word from the early 80’s and not the sudden rise in the 90’s I was expecting. The inclusion of “frequentist” is definitely in the joking mode, as this is not a qualification used by frequentists to describe their methods. In other words (!), “frequentist” does not occur very often in frequentist papers (and not as often as in Bayesian papers!)…