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Direct linkMorey, Richard D.; Rouder, Jeffrey N. – Psychological Methods, 2011
Psychological theories are statements of constraint. The role of hypothesis testing in psychology is to test whether specific theoretical constraints hold in data. Bayesian statistics is well suited to the task of finding supporting evidence for constraint, because it allows for comparing evidence for 2 hypotheses against each another. One issue…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervals, Testing, Hypothesis Testing
