Bayesian Evaluation of Informative Hypotheses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hoijtink, Herbert (Editor), Klugkist, Irene (Editor), Boelen, Paul A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

This book presents an alternative for traditional null hypothesis testing. It builds on the idea that researchers usually have more informative research-questions than the "nothing is going on" null hypothesis, or the "something is going on" alternative hypothesis. To be more pre...