bayes4psy : an open source R package for Bayesian statistics in psychology

Demšar, Jure (author), Repovš, Grega (author), Štrumbelj, Erik (author)

Research in psychology generates complex data and often requires unique statistical analyses. These tasks are often very specific, so appropriate statistical models and methods cannot be found in accessible Bayesian tools. As a result, the use of Bayesian methods is limited to researchers and students that have the technical and statistical fundamentals that are required for probabilistic programming. Such knowledge is not part of the typical psychology curriculum and is a difficult obstacle for psychology students and researchers to overcome. The goal of the bayes4psy package is to bridge this gap and offer a collection of models and methods to be used for analysing data that arises from psychological experiments and as a teaching tool for Bayesian statistics in psychology. The package contains the Bayesian t-test and bootstrapping along with models for analysing reaction times, success rates, and tasks utilizing colors as a response. It also provides the diagnostic, analytic and visualization tools for the modern Bayesian data analysis workflow.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Bayesian statistics, R, psychology, reaction time, success rate, Bayesian t-test, color analysis, linear model
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science ; FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 20 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 11, art. 947
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-127097
• UDC: 519.22:159.9
• ISSN on article: 1664-1078
• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00947
• COBISS.SI-ID: 14800387
• Publication date in RUL: 17.05.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Frontiers in psychology
• Shortened title: Front. psychol.
• Publisher: Frontiers Media
• ISSN: 1664-1078
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519967513

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 12.05.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Bayesova statistika, R, psihologija, reakcijski čas, uspešnost, Bayesov t-test, analiza barv, linearni model