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ArticlePsychological methods2024

Efficient alternatives for Bayesian hypothesis tests in psychology.

Sandipan Pramanik, Valen E Johnson

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Article in Psychological methods, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. On Bayes factors for hypothesis tests.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025
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  3. Bayes factor functions for reporting outcomes of hypothesis tests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sandipan PramanikDepartment of Statistics, College of Science, Texas A&M University.ORCID 0000-0002-7196-155X
Valen E JohnsonDepartment of Statistics, College of Science, Texas A&M University.ORCID 0000-0002-8659-4772

Funding

Consistent variable selection in p>>n settingsR01CA158113 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI JOHNSON, VALEN EARL · 2011 to 2020
$2.8M
National Institutes of Health; National Cancer InstituteNCI NIH HHS R01 CA158113
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bayesian hypothesis testing procedures have gained increased acceptance in recent years. A key advantage that Bayesian tests have over classical testing procedures is their potential to quantify information in support of true null hypotheses. Ironically, default implementations of Bayesian tests prevent the accumulation of strong evidence in favor of true null hypotheses because associated default alternative hypotheses assign a high probability to data that are most consistent with a null effect. We propose the use of "nonlocal" alternative hypotheses to resolve this paradox. The resulting class of Bayesian hypothesis tests permits more rapid accumulation of evidence in favor of both true null hypotheses and alternative hypotheses that are compatible with standardized effect sizes of most interest in psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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Bayes TheoremPsychologyData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansResearch Design

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PMID35420854
PMCPMC9561355

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