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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Physical activity counteracts some of the negative consequences associated with chronic neurological diseases. Here, we describe the levels of physical activity (PA) and sports activity (Sport) in patients with multiple sclerosis (pMS, n = 59) and ...
Julia Schüler +7 more
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A Tutorial on Conducting and Interpreting a Bayesian Independent T‐Test Using Open‐Source Software
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 4, Page 3845-3858, April 2026.ABSTRACT Aim To demonstrate a worked‐out example of a Bayesian independent t‐test using open‐source software, simulated data, a hypothetical nurse education intervention and a randomised controlled study design. This tutorial explains relevant Bayesian concepts and highlights literature that provides statistically principled justifications for ...
Helen Evelyn Malone, Imelda Coyne
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From Discovery to Justification: Outline of an Ideal Research Program in Empirical Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The gold standard for an empirical science is the replicability of its research results. But the estimated average replicability rate of key-effects that top-tier psychology journals report falls between 36 and 39% (objective vs.
Erich H. Witte +4 more
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Beyond Normality: Gain‐Probability Analysis for Symmetric Scale Mixture of Normal Distributions
Australian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Volume 68, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Gain‐Probability (G‐P) analysis quantifies the probability that a randomly selected individual from one group scores higher or lower than an individual from another group, by varying magnitudes. While G‐P methods have been developed under normality and various skewed distributions, symmetric heavy‐tailed settings remain largely unexplored ...
Tingting Tong +5 more
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Time to ditch NHST, but NHST alone
, 2015 A comment on Coulson et al's article (2010, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00026).
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 211-248, March 2026.Abstract Analyses in vocabulary research should avoid the language‐as‐a‐fixed‐effect fallacy, whereby no statistical evidence is provided to support claimed generalizations beyond the words tested in the sample. Although mixed‐effects models are widely adopted in social sciences to avoid this fallacy, second language vocabulary researchers primarily ...
Christopher Nicklin +2 more
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Conditional equivalence testing: An alternative remedy for publication bias. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 We introduce a publication policy that incorporates "conditional equivalence testing" (CET), a two-stage testing scheme in which standard NHST is followed conditionally by testing for equivalence.
Harlan Campbell, Paul Gustafson
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, 2023 Ruling out that there is absolutely no effect or association between variables may be a good first step, but it is rarely the ultimate goal of science. Yet that is the only inference provided by traditional null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), which has been a mainstay of many scientific fields.
Smiley, Adam H. +2 more
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Effect size, confidence intervals and statistical power in psychological research. [PDF]
Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2015 Quantitative psychological research is focused on detecting the occurrence of certain population phenomena by analyzing data from a sample, and statistics is a particularly helpful mathematical tool that is used by researchers to evaluate hypotheses and ...
Téllez A. +2 more
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