Why Bayesian Psychologists Should Change the Way They Use the Bayes Factor

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 2-10

  Hoijtink, Herbert ^a,b   van Kooten, Pascal ^a   Hulsker, Koenraad ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CITO Institute for Educational Measurement   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; calibrated Bayes; default prior distributions; frequency calculations; subjective prior distribution

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGIST; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL MODEL; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84958793743     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2014.969364     Document Type: Review

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