Bayes Factor Approaches for Testing Interval Null Hypotheses

Psychological Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 406-419

  Morey, Richard D ^a   Rouder, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Bayesian analysis; Effect size; Equivalence tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 83755224811     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024377     Document Type: Article

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