Earlier this week Jill de Ron attended me to a new tutorial paper on Bayesian equivalence testing in JASP, in press for AMPPS (Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science) and authored by Henk Kiers and Jorge Tendeiro. The paper uses a series of neat graphs and clear explanations to demonstrate how researchers can execute Bayesian equivalence tests (in JASP) and interpret the results. Cool stuff, and congratulations to the authors! Based on my reading so far, my only concern is the article title: “Bridging null hypothesis testing and estimation: A practical guide to statistical conclusion drawing from research in psychology”. It would have been much better, in my opinion, to title the paper “A tutorial on Bayesian equivalence testing in JASP” or even “A tutorial on Bayesian equivalence testing” — such specific, short titles help researchers actually find the paper (and cite it :-)). If you are looking for a tutorial paper on Bayesian equivalence testing you are not going to read the present title and think that you’ve hit the jackpot. Moreover, in the context of a paper in AMPPS the phrase “A practical guide to statistical conclusion drawing from research in psychology” is just synonymous with “tutorial”. And because AMPPS publishes mainly highly accessible papers, an argument could be made for the following simple title: “Bayesian equivalence testing”. On the other hand, the paper is published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, a journal whose name I once considered part of an ploy to doom the journal before it even got off the ground (if so, it did not work: AMPPS is thriving). Anyway, below I present a screenshot of a single page from the so as to provide an impression of the whole. Highly recommended!
References
Kiers, H. A. L. , & Tendeiro, J. N. (in press). Bridging null hypothesis testing and estimation: A practical guide to statistical conclusion drawing from research in psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
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