Popular Misconceptions About Bayesian Inference: Introduction to a Series of Blog Posts

“By seeking and blundering we learn.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bayesian methods have never been more popular than they are today. In the field of statistics, Bayesian procedures are mainstream, and have been so for at least two decades. Applied fields such as psychology, medicine, economy, and biology are slow to catch up, but in general researchers now view…

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An Interactive App for Designing Informative Experiments

Bayesian inference offers the pragmatic researcher a series of perks (Wagenmakers, Morey, & Lee, 2016). For instance, Bayesian hypothesis tests can quantify support in favor of a null hypothesis, and they allow researchers to track evidence as data accumulate (e.g., Rouder, 2014). However, Bayesian inference also confronts researchers with new challenges, for instance concerning the planning of experiments. Within the…

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Redefine Statistical Significance Part X: Why the Point-Null Will Never Die

In our previous post, we discussed the paper “Abandon Statistical Significance”, which is a response to the paper “Redefine Statistical Significance” that has dominated the contents of this blog so far. The Abandoners include Andrew Gelman and Christian Robert, and on their own blogs they’ve each posted a reaction to our Bayesian Spectacles post. Below is a short response to…

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