\]. Completion of this course will give you an understanding of the concepts of the Bayesian approach, understanding the key differences between Bayesian and Frequentist approaches, and the ability to do basic data analyses. \], Or, to write the same thing in terms of the equations above: \[ But to my mind that misses the point. We can also do the same with the log likelihood. The Quizzes are also set at a good level. That being said, I can talk a little about why I prefer the Bayesian approach. But when you reach \(N=50\) your willpower gives in… and you take a peek. In this data set, we supposedly sampled 180 beings and measured two things. However, I have to stop somewhere, and so there’s only one other topic I want to cover: Bayesian ANOVA. However, if you’ve got a lot of possible models in the output, it’s handy to know that you can use the head() function to pick out the best few models. part refers to the alternative hypothesis. For example, the first row tells us that if we ignore all this umbrella business, the chance that today will be a rainy day is 15%. This distinction matters in some contexts, but it’s not important for our purposes.↩, If we were being a bit more sophisticated, we could extend the example to accommodate the possibility that I’m lying about the umbrella. 48: 19313–7. \end{array} 2015) in R(R Core Team 2014), often referred to as LD. It is simply not an allowed or correct thing to say if you want to rely on orthodox statistical tools. \begin{array} You can choose to report a Bayes factor less than 1, but to be honest I find it confusing. It prints out a bunch of descriptive statistics and a reminder of what the null and alternative hypotheses are, before finally getting to the test results. We will compare the Bayesian approach to the more commonly-taught Frequentist approach, and see some of the benefits of the Bayesian approach. All of them. Morey, Richard D., and Jeffrey N. Rouder. As we discussed earlier, the prior tells us that the probability of a rainy day is 15%, and the likelihood tells us that the probability of me remembering my umbrella on a rainy day is 30%. So, what might you believe about whether it will rain today? When you get to the actual test you can get away with this: A test of association produced a Bayes factor of 16:1 in favour of a relationship between species and choice. BioGeoBEARS: BioGeography with Bayesian (and Likelihood) Evolutionary Analysis in R Scripts BioGeoBEARS allows probabilistic inference of both historical biogeography (ancestral geographic ranges on a phylogeny) as well as comparison of different models of range evolution. On the other hand, unless precision is extremely important, I think that this is taking things a step too far: We ran a Bayesian test of association using version 0.9.10-1 of the BayesFactor package using default priors and a joint multinomial sampling plan. Up to this point I’ve focused exclusively on the logic underpinning Bayesian statistics. And as a consequence you’ve transformed the decision-making procedure into one that looks more like this: The “basic” theory of null hypothesis testing isn’t built to handle this sort of thing, not in the form I described back in Chapter 11. Finally, if we turn to hypergeometric sampling in which everything is fixed, we get…. Bayesian methods usually require more evidence before rejecting the null. For the Poisson sampling plan (i.e., nothing fixed), the command you need is identical except for the sampleType argument: Notice that the Bayes factor of 28:1 here is not the identical to the Bayes factor of 16:1 that we obtained from the last test. That’s not what 95% confidence means to a frequentist statistician. \frac{P(h_1 | d)}{P(h_0 | d)} &=& \displaystyle\frac{P(d|h_1)}{P(d|h_0)} &\times& \displaystyle\frac{P(h_1)}{P(h_0)} \\[6pt] \\[-2pt] If you multiply both sides of the equation by \(P(d)\), then you get \(P(d) P(h| d) = P(d,h)\), which is the rule for how joint probabilities are calculated. Having written down the priors and the likelihood, you have all the information you need to do Bayesian reasoning. So it’s not fair to say that the \(p<.05\) threshold “really” corresponds to a 49% Type I error rate (i.e., \(p=.49\)). On the other hand, informative priors constrain parameter estimation, more … The second type of statistical inference problem discussed in this book is the comparison between two means, discussed in some detail in the chapter on \(t\)-tests (Chapter 13. The help documentation to the contingencyTableBF() gives this explanation: “the argument priorConcentration indexes the expected deviation from the null hypothesis under the alternative, and corresponds to Gunel and Dickey’s (1974) \(a\) parameter.” As I write this I’m about halfway through the Gunel and Dickey paper, and I agree that setting \(a=1\) is a pretty sensible default choice, since it corresponds to an assumption that you have very little a priori knowledge about the contingency table.↩, In some of the later examples, you’ll see that this number is not always 0%. Or if we look at line 1, we can see that the odds are about \(1.6 \times 10^{34}\) that a model containing the dan.sleep variable (but no others) is better than the intercept only model. That’s it! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Hume↩, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Adelaide↩, It’s a leap of faith, I know, but let’s run with it okay?↩, Um. Specifically, the first column tells us that on average (i.e., ignoring whether it’s a rainy day or not), the probability of me carrying an umbrella is 8.75%. You can’t compute a \(p\)-value when you don’t know the decision making procedure that the researcher used. This chapter comes in two parts. What I find helpful is to start out by working out which model is the best one, and then seeing how well all the alternatives compare to it. Bayes Bayes Bayes Bayes Bayes. BN • Graphical Bayesian “Belief” Network (BBN) • Prior, Likelihood and Posterior Python • BN ecosystem in Python R • BN ecosystem in R PyDataDC 10/8/2016BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELING USING PYTHON AND R 20 However, prerequisites are essential in order to appreciate the course. What this table is telling you is that, after being told that I’m carrying an umbrella, you believe that there’s a 51.4% chance that today will be a rainy day, and a 48.6% chance that it won’t. TLDR Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) is one method of inferring model parameters. Here are some possibilities: Which would you choose? This article is not a theoretical explanation of Bayesian statistics, but rather a step-by-step guide to building your first Bayesian model in R. If you are not familiar with the Bayesian framework, it is probably best to do some For the chapek9 data, I implied that we designed the study such that the total sample size \(N\) was fixed, so we should set sampleType = "jointMulti". This course combines lecture videos, computer demonstrations, readings, exercises, and discussion boards to create an active learning experience. In this case, the alternative is that there is a relationship between species and choice: that is, they are not independent. \]. The \(\pm0\%\) part is not very interesting: essentially, all it’s telling you is that R has calculated an exact Bayes factor, so the uncertainty about the Bayes factor is 0%.270 In any case, the data are telling us that we have moderate evidence for the alternative hypothesis. The odds of 0.98 to 1 imply that these two models are fairly evenly matched. \], \[ For the purposes of this section, I’ll assume you want Type II tests, because those are the ones I think are most sensible in general. This framework is extended with the continuous version of Bayes theorem to estimate continuous model parameters, and calculate posterior probabilities and credible intervals. The contingencyTableBF() function distinguishes between four different types of experiment: Okay, so now we have enough knowledge to actually run a test. Oxford. For the analysis of contingency tables, the BayesFactor package contains a function called contingencyTableBF(). So I should probably tell you what your options are! So we'll be getting the same answers, it's just a little rescaling on the vertical axis. Burlington, MA: Academic Press. Second, the “BF=15.92” part will only make sense to people who already understand Bayesian methods, and not everyone does. However, there have been some attempts to work out the relationship between the two, and it’s somewhat surprising. In this case, the null model is the one that contains only an effect of drug, and the alternative is the model that contains both. So here it is: And to be perfectly honest, I think that even the Kass and Raftery standards are being a bit charitable. In the middle, we have the Bayes factor, which describes the amount of evidence provided by the data: \[ I use Bayesian methods in my research at Lund University where I also run a network for people interested in Bayes. However, prerequisites are essential in order to appreciate the course. Lesson 5 introduces the fundamentals of Bayesian inference. All the \(p\)-values you calculated in the past and all the \(p\)-values you will calculate in the future. Morey and Rouder (2015) built their Bayesian tests of association using the paper by Gunel and Dickey (1974), the specific test we used assumes that the experiment relied on a joint multinomial sampling plan, and indeed the Bayes factor of 15.92 is moderately strong evidence. You have two possible hypotheses, \(h\): either it rains today or it does not. We will learn about the philosophy of the Bayesian approach as well as how to implement it for common types of data. In particular, the Bayesian approach allows for better accounting of uncertainty, results that have more intuitive and interpretable meaning, and more explicit statements of assumptions. This gives us the following formula for the posterior probability: \[ It’s a good question, but the answer is tricky. And yes, these rules are surprisingly strict. Without knowing anything else, you might conclude that the probability of January rain in Adelaide is about 15%, and the probability of a dry day is 85%. Everything about that passage is correct, of course. The reason for reporting Bayes factors rather than posterior odds is that different researchers will have different priors. At the bottom, the output defines the null hypothesis for you: in this case, the null hypothesis is that there is no relationship between species and choice. Finally, I devoted some space to talking about why I think Bayesian methods are worth using (Section 17.3. Unlike frequentist statistics Bayesian statistics does allow to talk about the probability that the null hypothesis is true. When I observe the data \(d\), I have to revise those beliefs. So the probability that both of these things are true is calculated by multiplying the two: \[ Finally, the evidence against an interaction is very weak, at 1.01:1. In this chapter I explain why I think this, and provide an introduction to Bayesian statistics, an approach that I think is generally superior to the orthodox approach. In this case, it’s easy enough to see that the best model is actually the one that contains dan.sleep only (line 1), because it has the largest Bayes factor. The main effect of therapy can be calculated in much the same way. All the complexity of real life Bayesian hypothesis testing comes down to how you calculate the likelihood \(P(d|h)\) when the hypothesis \(h\) is a complex and vague thing. Not just the \(p\)-values that you calculated for this study. What’s the Bayes factor for the main effect of drug? What does the Bayesian version of the \(t\)-test look like? I absolutely know that if you adopt a sequential analysis perspective you can avoid these errors within the orthodox framework. Okay, at this point you might be thinking that the real problem is not with orthodox statistics, just the \(p<.05\) standard. You aren’t even allowed to change your data analyis strategy after looking at data. I’ve rounded 15.92 to 16, because there’s not really any important difference between 15.92:1 and 16:1. I didn’t bother indicating whether this was “moderate” evidence or “strong” evidence, because the odds themselves tell you! If this number is < R, we will accept the new value for p (p ') and we update the value of p = p '. Actually, this equation is worth expanding on. What’s next? In an ideal world, the answer here should be 95%. Plotting this as a series of points doesn't give us necessarily the best picture. It’s precisely because of the fact that I haven’t really come to any strong conclusions that I haven’t added anything to the lsr package to make Bayesian Type II tests easier to produce.↩, \[ Back in Section 13.5 I discussed the chico data frame in which students grades were measured on two tests, and we were interested in finding out whether grades went up from test 1 to test 2. But, just like last time, there’s not a lot of information here that you actually need to process. But there are no hard and fast rules here: what counts as strong or weak evidence depends entirely on how conservative you are, and upon the standards that your community insists upon before it is willing to label a finding as “true”. That might change in the future if Bayesian methods become standard and some task force starts writing up style guides, but in the meantime I would suggest using some common sense. To write this as an equation:259 \[ If you are a frequentist, the answer is “very wrong”. Now we can plot the sequence against the log likelihood of that sequence. However, for the sake of everyone’s sanity, throughout this chapter I’ve decided to rely on one R package to do the work. A guy carrying an umbrella on a summer day in a hot dry city is pretty unusual, and so you really weren’t expecting that. However, there are of course four possible things that could happen, right? At the end of this section I’ll give a precise description of how Bayesian reasoning works, but first I want to work through a simple example in order to introduce the key ideas. Okay, let’s say you’ve settled on a specific regression model. Having written down the priors and the likelihood, you have all the … The alternative hypothesis is three times as probable as the null, so we say that the odds are 3:1 in favour of the alternative. That way, anyone reading the paper can multiply the Bayes factor by their own personal prior odds, and they can work out for themselves what the posterior odds would be. If you try to publish it as a null result, the paper will struggle to be published. If you peek at your data after every single observation, there is a 49% chance that you will make a Type I error. As usual we have a formula argument in which we specify the outcome variable on the left hand side and the grouping variable on the right. Adding that in makes it very clearly that this likelihood is maximized at 72 over 400. The resulting Bayes factor of 15.92 to 1 in favour of the alternative hypothesis indicates that there is moderately strong evidence for the non-independence of species and choice. The BayesFactor package contains a function called anovaBF() that does this for you. Just to refresh your memory, here’s how we analysed these data back in Chapter@refch:chisquare. In the meantime, I thought I should show you the trick for how I do this in practice. Mathematically, we say that: \[ Well, keep in mind that if you do, your Type I error rate at \(p<.05\) just ballooned out to 8%. Similarly, \(h_1\) is your hypothesis that today is rainy, and \(h_2\) is the hypothesis that it is not. – Portal263. The (Intercept) term isn’t usually interesting, though it is highly significant. Let’s pick a setting that is closely analogous to the orthodox scenario. Specifically, what you’re doing is using the \(p\)-value itself as a reason to justify continuing the experiment. Or, to put it another way, the null hypothesis is that these two variables are independent. All you have to do to compare these two models is this: And there you have it. Time to change gears. My preference is usually to go for something a little briefer. In any case here is a brief example. All of them. That seems silly. How do we run an equivalent test as a Bayesian? Gunel, Erdogan, and James Dickey. Now, just like last time, let’s assume that the null hypothesis is true. \mbox{Posterior odds} && \mbox{Bayes factor} && \mbox{Prior odds} In the same way that the row sums tell us the probability of rain, the column sums tell us the probability of me carrying an umbrella. Nope! … an error message. Let’s start out with one of the rules of probability theory. Similarly, we can work out how much belief to place in the alternative hypothesis using essentially the same equation. BayesFactor: Computation of Bayes Factors for Common Designs. Except when the sampling procedure is fixed by an external constraint, I’m guessing the answer is “most people have done it”. Second, we asked them to nominate whether they most preferred flowers, puppies, or data. This formula tells us exactly how much belief we should have in the null hypothesis after having observed the data \(d\). P(\mbox{rainy}, \mbox{umbrella}) & = & P(\mbox{umbrella} | \mbox{rainy}) \times P(\mbox{rainy}) \\ The example I gave in the previous section is a pretty extreme situation. Usually this happens because you have a substantive theoretical reason to prefer one model over the other. As I discussed back in Section 16.10, Type II tests for a two-way ANOVA are reasonably straightforward, but if you have forgotten that section it wouldn’t be a bad idea to read it again before continuing. \end{array} The problem is that the word “likelihood” has a very specific meaning in frequentist statistics, and it’s not quite the same as what it means in Bayesian statistics. That’s because the citation itself includes that information (go check my reference list if you don’t believe me). I don’t know about you, but in my opinion an evidentiary standard that ensures you’ll be wrong on 20% of your decisions isn’t good enough. If I’d chosen a 5:1 Bayes factor instead, the results would look even better for the Bayesian approach.↩, http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ambrosius_Macrobius/↩, Okay, I just know that some knowledgeable frequentists will read this and start complaining about this section. On the other hand, let’s suppose you are a Bayesian. None of us are without sin. We could use either a binomial likelihood, or a Bernoulli likelihood. I do not think it means what you think it means You already know that you’re doing a Bayes factor analysis. However, one big practical advantage of the Bayesian approach relative to the orthodox approach is that it also allows you to quantify evidence for the null. It’s a reasonable, sensible and rational thing to do. Because every student did both tests, the tool we used to analyse the data was a paired samples \(t\)-test. At the time we speculated that this might have been because the questioner was a large robot carrying a gun, and the humans might have been scared. For example, here is a quote from an official Newspoll report in 2013, explaining how to interpret their (frequentist) data analysis:262, Throughout the report, where relevant, statistically significant changes have been noted. Wagenmakers’ book Bayesian Cognitive Modeling (Lee and Wagenmakers 2014). Okay, let’s think about option number 2. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that, Lesson 4.2 Likelihood function and maximum likelihood. Before reading any further, I urge you to take some time to think about it. However, notice that there’s no analog of the var.equal argument. See? If a researcher is determined to cheat, they can always do so. The concern I’m raising here is valid for every single orthodox test I’ve presented so far, and for almost every test I’ve seen reported in the papers I read.↩, A related problem: http://xkcd.com/1478/↩, Some readers might wonder why I picked 3:1 rather than 5:1, given that Johnson (2013) suggests that \(p=.05\) lies somewhere in that range. In other words, before I told you that I am in fact carrying an umbrella, you’d have said that these two events were almost identical in probability, yes? I also know that you can explictly design studies with interim analyses in mind. This wouldn’t have been a problem, except for the fact that the way that Bayesians use the word turns out to be quite different to the way frequentists do. Better yet, it allows us to calculate the posterior probability of the null hypothesis, using Bayes’ rule: \[ When the study starts out you follow the rules, refusing to look at the data or run any tests. At the bottom we have some techical rubbish, and at the top we have some information about the Bayes factors. Much easier to understand, and you can interpret this using the table above. In contrast, notice that the Bayesian test doesn’t even reach 2:1 odds in favour of an effect, and would be considered very weak evidence at best. One of the really nice things about the Bayes factor is the numbers are inherently meaningful. You are not allowed to look at a “borderline” \(p\)-value and decide to collect more data. What should you do? So the relevant comparison is between lines 2 and 1 in the table. In real life, people don’t run hypothesis tests every time a new observation arrives. But that’s a recipe for career suicide. Keywords: Bayesian, LaplacesDemon, LaplacesDemonCpp, R. This article is an introduction to Bayesian inference for users of the LaplacesDemonpackage (Statisticat LLC. That gives us this table: This is a very useful table, so it’s worth taking a moment to think about what all these numbers are telling us. We can now plot this. Within the Bayesian framework, it is perfectly sensible and allowable to refer to “the probability that a hypothesis is true”. So how bad is it? Read literally, this result tells is that the evidence in favour of the alternative is 0.5 to 1. To run our orthodox analysis in earlier chapters we used the aov() function to do all the heavy lifting. 2014. So you might have one sentence like this: All analyses were conducted using the BayesFactor package in R , and unless otherwise stated default parameter values were used. The BayesFactor package contains a function called ttestBF() that is flexible enough to run several different versions of the \(t\)-test. That is: If we look those two models up in the table, we see that this comparison is between the models on lines 3 and 4 of the table. Even if you’re a more pragmatic frequentist, it’s still the wrong definition of a \(p\)-value. Instead, we tend to talk in terms of the posterior odds ratio. On the other hand, you also know that I have young kids, and you wouldn’t be all that surprised to know that I’m pretty forgetful about this sort of thing. Again, we obtain a \(p\)-value less than 0.05, so we reject the null hypothesis. For cases where the prior information is uninformative, the Bayesian approach is as good as the Maximum likelihood (the frequentist) approach. If that’s right, then Fisher’s claim is a bit of a stretch. The first half of this chapter was focused primarily on the theoretical underpinnings of Bayesian statistics. \], It’s all so simple that I feel like an idiot even bothering to write these equations down, since all I’m doing is copying Bayes rule from the previous section.260. The alternative hypothesis is the model that includes both. Ultimately it depends on what you think is right. The second half of the chapter was a lot more practical, and focused on tools provided by the BayesFactor package. However, sequential analysis methods are constructed in a very different fashion to the “standard” version of null hypothesis testing. Others will claim that the evidence is ambiguous, and that you should collect more data until you get a clear significant result. The content moves at a nice pace and the videos are really good to follow. When writing up the results, my experience has been that there aren’t quite so many “rules” for how you “should” report Bayesian hypothesis tests. 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