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Beyond 'statistical significance': A nontechnical primer of Bayesian statistics and Bayes factors for health researchers.

Ahtisham Younas
Published in: Journal of evaluation in clinical practice (2024)
Health researchers should supplement frequentists statistics with Bayesian statistics when analysing research data. The overreliance on p values for clinical decisions making should be avoided. Bayes factors offer a more intuitive measure of assessing the strength of evidence for null and alternative hypothesis.
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