Tagged: Bayesian

SEM

Bayesian SEM (BSEM) Application and Example

Sounds good, right? Bayesian priors allow cross-loadings and residual covariances of SEM’s to vary a small degree (i.e., replace exact zeros with approximate zeros from informative, small-variance priors) and be evaluated (see Asparouhov, Muthén, & Morin, 2015; Muthén, & Asparouhov 2012).  The researcher can thereby discover whether 0 cross-loadings likely exist in...

Methods / Ramblings

Banning the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Procedure (NHSTP)

Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) is the first psychology journal to outright ban NHSTP.  The link to the short editorial tells the story, but you can certainly find much more on the subject from other sources.  Bayesian procedures are neither banned nor required.  The idea is that strong descriptive statistics,...