Default “Gunel and Dickey” Bayes factors for contingency tables

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 638-652

  Jamil, Tahira ^a   Ly, Alexander ^a   Morey, Richard D ^b   Love, Jonathon ^a   Marsman, Maarten ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Contingency table; p value; Sampling models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTINGENCY TABLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MODEL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BAYES THEOREM; FACTOR ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

BAYES THEOREM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84975244059     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-016-0739-8     Document Type: Article

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