bayesian-statistics

Optional stopping with Bayes factors: possibilities and limitations

Rianne de Heide / 2021-06-10

In recent years, a surprising number of scientific results have failed to hold up to continued scrutiny. Part of this ‘replicability crisis’ may be caused by practices that ignore the assumptions of traditional (frequentist) statistical methods (John, Loewenstein, and Prelec 2012). One of these…