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Trafimow, David – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
There has been much controversy over the null hypothesis significance testing procedure, with much of the criticism centered on the problem of inverse inference. Specifically, p gives the probability of the finding (or one more extreme) given the null hypothesis, whereas the null hypothesis significance testing procedure involves drawing a…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Probability, Intervals
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Jarosz, Andrew F.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Problem Solving, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to provide an easy template for the inclusion of the Bayes factor in reporting experimental results, particularly as a recommendation for articles in the "Journal of Problem Solving." The Bayes factor provides information with a similar purpose to the "p"-value--to allow the researcher to make…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Computation
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Lu, Hongjing; Chen, Dawn; Holyoak, Keith J. – Psychological Review, 2012
How can humans acquire relational representations that enable analogical inference and other forms of high-level reasoning? Using comparative relations as a model domain, we explore the possibility that bottom-up learning mechanisms applied to objects coded as feature vectors can yield representations of relations sufficient to solve analogy…
Descriptors: Inferences, Thinking Skills, Comparative Analysis, Models
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Petocz, Peter; Sowey, Eric – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2008
In this article, the authors focus on hypothesis testing--that peculiarly statistical way of deciding things. Statistical methods for testing hypotheses were developed in the 1920s and 1930s by some of the most famous statisticians, in particular Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson, who laid the foundations of almost all modern methods of…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Statistical Analysis
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Yan, Duanli; Almond, Russell; Mislevy, Robert – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
Diagnostic score reports linking assessment outcomes to instructional interventions are one of the most requested features of assessment products. There is a body of interesting work done in the last 20 years including Tatsuoka's rule space method (Tatsuoka, 1983), Haertal and Wiley's binary skills model (Haertal, 1984; Haertal & Wiley, 1993),…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Models, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference