# bayesian inference for psychology

de Finetti, B. Peixoto, J. L. (1987). Bernardo, J. M., & Smith, A. F. M. (1994). Default Bayes factors for nonnested hypothesis testing. Poor predictive adequacy of $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ alone is not a sufficient reason to prefer $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$; it is the balance between predictions from $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ and $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$ that is relevant for the assessment of the evidence. 1 pp. Reflections on the cot death cases. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Cauchy distribution is similar to the normal distribution but has fatter tails; it is a t-distribution with a single degree of freedom. 1. Default “Gunel and Dickey” Bayes factors for contingency tables. Furthermore, note that for large sample sizes, Bayes factors are guaranteed to strongly support a true $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$, even for very small true effect sizes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Concretely, in their Experiment 2, one group of participants rotated kitchen rolls clockwise, whereas the other group rotated them counterclockwise. Hoeting, J. The Psychological Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam is dedicated to long-term support for JASP, and in 2017 we have received four million euro to set up projects that include the development of JASP as a key component. It is already known that varieties habitually differ and that treatments have different effects, and the problem is to decide which is the best; that is, to put the various members, as far as possible, in their correct order.” (Jeffreys 1961, p. 389).Footnote 11. Assessing the dissociability of recollection and familiarity in recognition memory. (2015). Our analysis asks whether and how people’s hostility towards arthropods depends on their disgustingness and frighteningness. A non–pragmatic vindication of probabilism. Figure available at https://osf.io/m6bi8/ under under a CC-BY license. To appreciate the difference, consider a scale that works perfectly in 95% of the cases, but returns a value of “1 kilo” in the remaining 5%. And in the absence of software, few researchers feel enticed to learn about Bayesian inference and few teachers feel enticed to teach it to their students. The top table shows the model-based analysis, whereas the bottom panels shows the analysis of effects, averaging across the models that contain a specific factor. After loading the data, the user can select one of several analyses. Review of “the foundations of statistical inference”. What matters is the relative likelihood of the deaths under each explanation, not just how unlikely they are under one explanation.” (Nobles & Schiff 2005, p. 19). How Bayes factors change scientific practice. Berger, J. O., & Pericchi, L. R. (1996). In such situations it is misleading to test the importance of the interaction term by solely focusing on a comparion to the poorly performing two main effects model. Raise standards for preclinical cancer research. Comment on “tests of significance in theory and practice” by D. J. Johnstone. Many of these arguments hold for statistical innovations in general, not just for p value NHST (Sharpe 2013). (1997). In this case the predictions of $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ are superior to those of $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$. (in press). This is aserious limitation. A simple example illustrates the point. Lee, M. D., & Wagenmakers, E. J. » The Shrinkage Trilogy: How to be Bayesian when analyzing simple experiments. Rouder, J. N., Morey, R. D., Speckman, P. L., & Pratte, M. P. (2007). In Forstmann, B. U., & Wagenmakers, E. J. Truth and probability. (2017). The scatter plot was shown in Figure 1 of Part I. Note that the long-run average need not reflect the probability of making an error for a particular case (Wagenmakers et al. Lindley, D. V. (2000). Morey, R. D., Hoekstra, R., Rouder, J. N., Lee, M. D., & Wagenmakers, E. J. Subjective Bayesian analysis: Principles and practice. Dawid, A. P. (2000). Science, 348, 1422–1425. The inferred conclusion of a valid deductive inference is necessarily t… Perhaps this is why significance tests are so popular with scientists: they make effects appear so easily.” (Lindley 1986, p. 502). Significance, 2, 6–8. Other important problems include the lack of data sharing and the blurred distinction between exploratory and confirmatory work (e.g., Chambers, 2013; De Groot, 1956/2014; Nosek et al., 2015; Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, van der Maas, & Kievit, 2012), not to mention the institutional incentive structure to “publish or perish” (Nosek et al. The reason for this discrepancy (i.e., a Bayes factor of 2.6 against the interaction model versus a Bayes factor of 1.5 in favor of the interaction model) is that these Bayes factors address different questions: The Bayes factor of 2.6 compares the interaction model against the two main effects model (which happens to be the model that is most supported by the data), whereas the Bayes factor of 1.5 compares the interaction model against all candidate models, some of which receive almost no support from the data. This produces the plot shown in the right panel of Fig. Jeffreys, H. (1961). Part I: Theoretical Advantages and Practical Rami cations Eric-Jan Wagenmakers 1, Maarten Marsman , Tahira Jamil , Alexander Ly 1, Josine Verhagen , Jonathon Love , Ravi Selker1, Quentin F. Gronau 1, Martin Sm ra 2, Sacha Epskamp1, Dora Matzke , Je rey N. Rouder3, & Richard D. Morey4 1 University of Amsterdam 2 Masaryk University (2011). (2016). Based on this prior distribution, Bem et al. Of course, when the data are composed of 10 successes out of 10 trials the interval (0 − 0.5) is nonsensical; however, the confidence of the classical procedure is based on average performance, and the average performance of the random interval is 50%. (2011). Perhaps not (e.g., Johnson, 2013). It should be acknowledged that the analysis of repeated measures ANOVA comes with a number of challenges and caveats. We are aiming at the best way of progress, not at the unattainable ideal of immediate certainty. In the classical framework, the usual remedy against incoherence is to focus on one source of information only. J. 2015). We will discuss each in turn. But their use as significance tests covers alooseness of statement of what question is being asked. Part II of this series discusses JASP, a free and open source software program that makes it easy to conduct Bayesian estimation and testing for a range of popular statistical scenarios (Wagenmakers et al. Article  Francis, G. (2013). UK National Archives, HW 25/37. The concept of p value null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) has been repeatedly critiqued on a number of important points (e.g., Edwards, Lindman, & Savage, 1963; Morrison & Henkel, 1970; Mulaik & Steiger, 1997; Wagenmakers, 2007), and few methodologists have sought to defend the practice. A Bayesian analysis may proceed as follows. An example of absence of evidence is BF01 = 1.5, where the observed data are only 1.5 times more likely to occur under $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ than under $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$. The null ritual: What you always wanted to know about significance testing but were afraid to ask. Peixoto, J. L. (1990). We cover the interpretation of probabilities, discrete and continuous versions of Bayes’ rule, parameter estimation, and model comparison. Prior and posterior distribution for the correlation between the proportion of the popular vote and the height ratio between a US president and his closest competitor. (2013). Specifically, we were concerned with the Pearson correlation ρ between the proportion of the popular vote and the height ratio (i.e., height of the president divided by the height of his closest competitor). 2∣y Bayesian core: A practical approach to computational Bayesian statistics. Marin, J. M., & Robert, C. P. (2007). The predictive interpretation of the Bayes factor is conceptually relevant because it means that inference can be meaningful even without either of the models being true in some absolute sense (Morey, Romeijn, & Rouder, 2013; but see van Erven, Grünwald, & de Rooij, 2012). •What is the Bayesian approach to statistics? 1). Bayesian inference is described only insofar as it enables discussion of selected Bayesian benefits over some frequentist problems highlighted above. PubMed  The strength of the evidence is not dependent on any conventional verbal description, such as “strong”. Berger, J. O., & Delampady, M. (1987). JASP screenshot for the two-sided test for the presence of a correlation between the relative height of the US president and his proportion of the popular vote. This one-sided interval is very different from the two-sided interval that ranged from .12 to .61. Almost all posterior mass is centered on the two main effects model and the model that also includes the interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. New York: Wiley. Bayes factors are elegant and often informative, but they cannot work miracles and the value of a Bayes factor rests on the reliability and representativeness of the data at hand. 585–603). Retrieved from https://jasp-stats.org/. Specification of prior distributions is an important component for Bayes factor hypothesis testing, as the prior distributions define a model’s complexity and hence exert a lasting effect on the test outcome. Hartshorne, C., & Weiss, P. (1932). The referee uses null hypothesis significance testing and therefore considers only the deplorable state of boxer $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ (i.e., the null hypothesis). Any statistical paradigm that cannot incorporate such knowledge seems overly restrictive and incomplete. (in press). In classical statistics one frequently sees testing done by forming a confidence region for the parameter, and then rejecting a null value of the parameter if it does not lie in the confidence region. Frontiers in Psycholology, 5, 781. One of the critiques is that p values are often misinterpreted as Bayesian posterior probabilities, such that it is all too easy to believe that p < .05 warrants the rejection of the null hypothesis $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$, and consequently supports the acceptance of the alternative hypothesis $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$. This interpretation of p values is tempting but incorrect (Gigerenzer, Krauss, & Vitouch, 2004). Registered Reports: A new publishing initiative at Cortex. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 1057–1064. Overstall, A. M., & King, R. (2014b). In the associated analysis menu, the user then drags the variable “Height” to the input field labeled “Dependent Variable” and drags the variables “Gender” and “Pitch” to the input field “Fixed Factors”. Heathcote, A., Brown, S. D., & Wagenmakers, E. J. But how big is the evidence in favor of an effect? Stevens, S. S. (1946). Jaynes, E. T. (2003). A. (2011) are relatively similar, a result anticipated by the sensitivity analysis reported in the online supplement to Wagenmakers et al. 2016b).Footnote 7. For instance, in political science one may be interested in polls that measure the relative popularity of various electoral candidates; the hypothesis that all candidates are equally popular is uninteresting and irrelevant. (2000). © 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. (1991). An agenda for purely confirmatory research. Emotion, 15, 109–119. Bayesian versus orthodox statistics: Which side are you on? Utrecht University. 19 pp. Despite the epistemological richness and practical benefits of Bayesian parameter estimation and Bayesian hypothesis testing, the practice of reporting p values continues its dominant reign. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, 6, 494. As demonstrated in part I of this series, Bayesian inference unlocks a series of advantages that remain unavailable to researchers who continue to rely solely on classical inference (Wagenmakers et al. For instance, the factor “Disgust” features in three models (i.e., Disgust only, Disgust + Fright, and Disgust + Fright + Disgust * Fright). Ultimately, the problem can only be overcome by conditioning on the data that were observed, but doing so removes the conceptual basis of classical inference. In general, the standard p value NHST is unable to provide a measure of evidence in favor of the null hypothesis. Bayesian parameter estimation and Bayesian hypothesis testing present attractive alternatives to classical inference using confidence intervals and p values. It is not possible within the classical framework to specify the interval bounds and then ask for the probability or confidence that the true value is within these bounds. (2009). In the election example, this means that we should explicitly consider the hypothesis that taller candidates do not attract a larger or smaller proportion of the popular vote. In the early stages of a research paradigm, the focus of interest may be on whether the effect is present or absent; in the later stages, if the presence of the effect has been firmly established, the focus may shift towards an estimation approach. In addition, JASP output retains its state, meaning that the input options are not lost – clicking on the output brings the input options back up, allowing for convenient review, discussion, and adjustment of earlier analyses. Default Bayes factors for model selection in regression. Part of Springer Nature. In recent years our work has focused on overcoming one reason for resistance: the real or perceived difficulty of obtaining default Bayesian answers for run-of-the-mill statistical scenarios involving correlations, the t-test, ANOVA and others. Bayesian evidence synthesis can reconcile seemingly inconsistent results: The case of hotel towel reuse. Relation between voice pitch, gender, and height (in inches) for data from 235 singers in the New York Choral Society in 1979. J. How cognitive modeling can benefit from hierarchical Bayesian models. Rouder, J. N., Lu, J., Speckman, P. L., Sun, D., & Jiang, Y. On the association between loneliness and bathing habits: Nine replications of Bargh and Shalev (2012) Study 1. In response, Bem, Utts, and Johnson (2011) critiqued the default prior distribution and re-analyzed the data using their own subjective “precognition prior”. Our analysis concerns the extent to which the dependent variable “height” is associated with gender (i.e., male, female) and/or pitch. The sequential analysis is of interest here because it was part of the experiment’s sampling plan, and because it underscores how researchers can monitor and visualize the evidential flow as the data accumulate. A superior approach is to construct hierarchical nonlinear process models that simultaneously account for psychological process and nuisance variation from people and items. After reading the story, participants were asked to provide the probability of several statements, including the following two: “Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. Sequential medical trials. Donnellan, M. B., Lucas, R. E., & Cesario, J. A In this particular case, both Bayes factors (i.e., 2.6 against the interaction model, and 1.5 in favor of the interaction model) are “not worth more than a bare mention” (Jeffreys 1961, Appendix B); moreover, God loves these Bayes factors almost an equal amount, so it may well be argued that the discrepancy here is more apparent than real. Part I: Theoretical advantages and practical ramifications. Wrinch, D., & Jeffreys, H. (1923). With many candidate models in play, it may be risky to base conclusions on a comparison involving a small subset. Theory of probability, (3rd ed.) Bayesian model selection of informative hypotheses for repeated measurements. 1). Part II: Example applications with JASP. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 426–432. Specifically, the possible outcomes of the Bayes factor can be assigned to three discrete categories: (1) evidence in favor of $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$ (i.e., evidence in favor of the presence of an effect); (2) evidence in favor of $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ (i.e., evidence in favor of the absence of an effect); (3) evidence that favors neither $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$ nor $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$. For examples see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BayesFactor/vignettes/priors.html. Bayes factors cannot be used with extremely vague or “uninformative” prior distributions for the parameters under test. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 71, 448–463. JASP also uses progressive disclosure, which means that initial output is minimalist and expanded only when the user makes specific requests (e.g., by ticking check boxes). Next we turn to a robustness analysis and quantify the evidential impact of the width r of the Cauchy prior distribution. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals. Thanks to the assistance of the original authors, we were able to closely mimic the setup of the original study. With the help of MCMC sampling, Bayesian inference proceeds almost mechanically, allowing for straightforward inference even in relatively complex models (e.g., Lunn et al., 2012). These categories were inspired by Jeffreys (1961, Appendix B). (2009). This correction has not yet been implemented in JASP. Bayes factor approaches for testing interval null hypotheses. In order to conduct this analysis in JASP, the user first opens the data set and then navigates to the “Bayesian ANOVA” input panel as was done for the one-way ANOVA. Bayesian approaches to brain function investigate the capacity of the nervous system to operate in situations of uncertainty in a fashion that is close to the optimal prescribed by Bayesian statistics. Part I of this series outlined several advantages of Bayesian hypothesis testing, including the ability to quantify evidence and the ability to monitor and update this evidence as data come in, without the need to know the intention with which the data were collected. Sequential hypothesis testing with Bayes factors: Efficiently testing mean differences. As shown in the left panel of Fig. Bayesian parameter estimation and Bayesian hypothesis testing present attractive alternatives to classical inference using confidence intervals and p values. (2011) are in qualitative agreement about the relatively low evidential impact of the individual studies reported in Bem (2011). A warning to the uninitiated reader: some of the objections and counterarguments may be difficult to understand from a superficial reading alone; trained statisticians and philosophers have debated these issues for many decades, without much resolution in sight. Statistical methods and scientific inference, 2nd edn. For example, Bayesian inference allows researchers to update knowledge, to draw conclusions about the specific case under consideration, to quantify evidence for the null hypothesis, and to monitor evidence until the result is sufficiently compelling or the available resources have been depleted. (2009). As expected, incorporating the knowledge that the observed effect is in the direction opposite to the one that was hypothesized increases the relative evidence in favor of $$\mathcal {H}_0$$ (see also Matzke et al., 2015). Nature, 483, 531–533. (1962). Pragmatic researchers may have a preference that is less pronounced. (Simonsohn 2015a).Footnote 17 In other words, Bayes factors can be “hacked” too, just like p values. Bayesian assessment of null values via parameter estimation and model comparison. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, (in this issue). In addition, the Cauchy form itself may be questioned. Lee, M. D., Fuss, I., & Navarro, D. (2006). Testing precise hypotheses. Despite their subjectivity, the research community has been able, by and large, to assess the reasonableness of the choices made by individual researchers. Scott, J. G., & Berger, J. O. Error bars show 95% confidence intervals. Psychological Science. In scenario 2, Bumbledorf tests all 40 children and feels that, although the data show a promising trend, the results are not statistically significant (p = .11). • Conditional probabilities, Bayes’ theorem, prior probabilities • Examples of applying Bayesian statistics • Bayesian correlation testing and model selection • Monte Carlo simulations The dark energy puzzleLecture 4 : Bayesian inference Lee, M. D. (2011). Here we believe that practical experience will show that Bayes factors are more informative and have higher predictive success than that provided by p values. 1 = y This indicates that the observed data are 3.71 times more likely under $$\mathcal {H}_0$$ than under $$\mathcal {H}_1$$. Statistical Science, 2, 317–352. A., Madigan, D., Raftery, & Volinsky, C. T. (1999). Finally, in some applications the question of estimation never arises. A note on inverse probability. 1,y For instance, Bayesian hypothesis testing allows researchers … The Bayes factor hypothesis test compares the predictive adequacy of two competing statistical models, thereby grading the evidence provided by the data on a continuous scale, and quantifying the change in belief that the data bring about for the two models under consideration. In an unpublished paper, Simonsohn has argued that Bayes factors are not immune to the biasing effects of selective reporting, ad-hoc use of transformations and outlier removal, etc. (1937). A default prior distribution for contingency tables with dependent factor levels. 2∣y Nature Methods, 12, 179–185. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 57, 99–138. The same result could have been obtained directly by adding “Disgust” and “Fright” as nuisance variables, as was illustrated in the previous example. Coherence has been argued to be the core element of Bayesian inference; for instance, Ramsey (1926) argued that “the most generally accepted parts of logic, namely, formal logic, mathematics and the calculus of probabilities, are all concerned simply to ensure that our beliefs are not self-contradictory” (see Eagle, 2011, p. 65); Jeffreys (1961, p. ix) starts the preface to the Bayesian classic “Theory of Probability” by stating that “The chief object of this work is to provide a method of drawing inferences from observational data that will be self-consistent and can also be used in practice”. 15. A simple introduction to Markov chain Monte-Carlo sampling. Psychological Review, 70, 193–242. London: Kegan Paul. Berger, J. O., & Wolpert, R. L. (1988). Key references for the Bayesian implementation include Liang, Paulo, Molina, Clyde, and Berger (2008), Rouder and Morey (2012), and Zellner and Siow (1980). Multivariate Behavioral Research, 47, 877–903. The left panel of Fig. 2017). Chapman & Hall/CRC: Boca Raton, FL. (Eds. For an indication of how Bayes factors can be computed under any proper prior distribution see http://jeffrouder.blogspot.nl/2016/01/what-priors-should-i-use-part-i.html, also available as a pdf file at the OSF project page https://osf.io/m6bi8/. Seventh, researchers interested in methodology have often internalized their statistical education to such an extent that they have difficulty accepting that the method they have used all their life may have serious limitations; when new information conflicts with old habits, the resulting cognitive dissonance can be reduced by discounting or ignoring the new information. Nevertheless, the sequential analysis plots in JASP make reference to discrete categories of evidential strength. Figure adjusted from Ryan and Wilde (2013). Fifth, the p value framework, when misinterpreted, offers a simple solution to deal with the uncertainty inherent in noisy data: when p < .05, reject $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$ and accept $$\mathcal {H}_{1}$$; when p > .10, retain $$\mathcal {H}_{0}$$. The Bayes factor of interest is BF10 = 0.108; when inverted, this yields BF 01 = 1/0.108 = 9.26, confirming the result obtained above through a simple calculation. Suppose you weigh yourself on this scale and the result is “70 kg”. Schönbrodt, F. D., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Zehetleitner, M., & Perugini, M. (in press). In sum, Bayes factors compare the predictive adequacy of two competing statistical models. Lilienfeld, & I. Waldman (Eds.) Based on a superficial assessment, the continued popularity of p values over Bayesian methods may be difficult to understand. Harold Jeffreys’s default Bayes factor hypothesis tests: Explanation, extension, and application in psychology. Unpublished manuscript. This sampling-plan-irrelevance follows from the likelihood principle (Berger & Wolpert 1988), and it means that Bayes factors may be computed and interpreted even when the intention with which the data are collected is ambiguous, unknown, or absent. Bayesian Analysis, 1, 403–420. Isay that the best is to use the 3/1 rule, considering no uncertainty beyond the sampling errors of the new experiments. The data from Topolinski and Sparenberg (2012) showed that, in line with their main hypothesis, participants who rotated the kitchen rolls clockwise reported more openness to experience than participants who rotated them counterclockwise (but see Francis, 2013). Calibration of p values for testing precise null hypotheses. Note that JASP uses exponential notation to represent large numbers; for instance, “3.807e +37” represents 3.807 × 1037. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 72, 104–115. 5. Rouder, J. N. (2014). The ability to quantify evidence in favor of the null hypothesis is also important for replication research, and should be of interest to any researcher who wishes to learn whether the observed data provide evidence of absence or absence of evidence (Dienes 2014). PubMed Central  For instance, the hypothesis of interest may predict an invariance, that is, the absence of an effect across a varying set of conditions. (2014). Such post-hoc tests have not yet been developed in the Bayesian ANOVA framework. The two-sided version of this test was originally proposed by Jeffreys (1961), and it involves a comparison of two hypothesis for effect size δ: the null hypothesis $$\mathcal {H}_0$$ postulates that effect size is absent (i.e., δ = 0), whereas the alternative hypothesis $$\mathcal {H}_1$$ assigns δ a Cauchy prior centered on 0 with interquartile range r = 1 (i.e., δ ∼Cauchy(0,1)). We reported that for this correlation, p = .007. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. The weighted likelihood ratio, sharp hypotheses about chances, the order of a Markov chain. Nature, 506, 150–152. Several analyses are illustrated with videos on the JASP YouTube channel. After the data are observed we can similarly consider the sum of the posterior model probabilities for the models that include disgust, yielding 4.497e-9 + 0.712 + 0.274 = 0.986. The arthropods were selected to vary along two dimensions with two levels: disgustingness (i.e., low disgusting and high disgusting) and frighteningness (i.e., low frighteningness and high frighteningness). 1,y Hence, the Bayes factor compares $$\mathcal {H}_{0}: \theta = \theta _{0}$$ against $$\mathcal {H}_{1}: \theta \sim \text {Uniform}(0,\theta _{0})$$ (e.g., Haldane, 1932; Etz & Wagenmakers, 2016). (2016), the multiway ANOVA harbors a multiple comparison problem. “Anscombe’s quartet highlights the importance of plotting data to confirm the validity of the model fit. Each cell in the 2 × 2 repeated measures design contains two arthropods. A comparison between Figs. 1) ×BF0+(y Basic And Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1–2. Email address: EJ.Wagenmakers@gmail.com. You then remove the blindfold and find that the dart has hit the smaller area. Our long-term goals for JASP are two-fold: the primary goal is to make Bayesian benefits more widely available than they are now, and the secondary goal is to reduce the field’s dependence on expensive statistical software programs such as SPSS. By featuring both classical and Bayesian analyses, JASP implicitly advocates a more inclusive statistical approach. It is reasonable to assume variation across people and items, and once the model is expanded to include people and item effects, it is not only nonlinear, but quite numerous in parameters. 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