Introduction to Objective Bayesian Hypothesis Testing

How to derive posterior probabilities for hypotheses using default Bayes factors

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Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital — where Cushny and Peebles conducted the hyoscine clinical trial [14]

Hypothesis testing pervades statistical education and scientific research, and for good reason. Experiments are often initiated from a hypothesis or produce data that leads to a hypothesis. Consider, for example, this data set from…