Evaluating hypotheses: We are all Bayesians now (for appropriate definitions of “Bayesians”)
"But it's under .05!" 2015-07-01
Summary:
(lifted and edited from Phil Birnbaum’s comment section) You should consider all relevant evidence when evaluating hypotheses. This seems an uncontroversial statement, even among journal editors. Is this necessarily Bayesian? Depends on one’s definition of Bayesianism, but to me the term implies something quantitatives: the use of Bayes’ theorem. If we consider any argument that […]