November 2010
Beginner to intermediate
672 pages
19h 28m
English
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Chapter 11
Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
Contents
11.1 NHST for the Bias of a Coin
11.1.1 When the Experimenter Intends to Fix N
11.1.2 When the Experimenter Intends to Fix z
11.1.3 Soul Searching
11.1.4 Bayesian Analysis
11.2 Prior Knowledge about the Coin
11.2.1 NHST Analysis
11.2.2 Bayesian Analysis
11.3 Confidence Interval and Highest Density Interval
11.3.1 NHST Confidence Interval
11.3.2 Bayesian HDI
11.4 Multiple Comparisons
11.4.1 NHST Correction for Experimentwise Error
11.4.2 Just One Bayesian Posterior No Matter How You Look at It
11.4.3 How Bayesian Analysis Mitigates False Alarms
11.5 What a Sampling Distribution Is Good For
11.5.1 Planning an Experiment
11.5.2 Exploring Model Predictions (Posterior Predictive Check)
11.6 Exercises ...
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