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. 2018 Jul 2:9:1125.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01125. eCollection 2018.

Why You Should Report Bayes Factors in Your Transcranial Brain Stimulation Studies

Anna Lena Biel  1 , Elisabeth V C Friedrich  1
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Why You Should Report Bayes Factors in Your Transcranial Brain Stimulation Studies

Anna Lena Biel et al. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: Bayesian statistics; TBS; null results; reproducibility; tACS; tDCS.

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P-values from a one-sided one-sample t-test and corresponding Bayes factors of simulated TBS experiments, for eight sample sizes (colored points) and two exemplary population effect sizes (A: dz = 0.2; B: dz = 0.5). T-tests with a p-value below 0.05 (dotted line) are conventionally considered as significant and H0 is rejected. BFs above 3 (upper dashed line) indicate evidence for H1 being more likely than H0. BFs below 0.33 (lower dashed line) yield evidence for H0 being favored over H1. BFs between 0.33 and 3 (area between the two dashed lines) are considered as inconclusive, or not more than anecdotal evidence for one of the hypotheses. Note. BF, Bayes factor; H0, null hypothesis; H1, research hypothesis; TBS, Transcranial Brain Stimulation.
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