Bayes Factor 1 Running head: BAYES FACTOR A Bayes Factor Calculation for Accepting the Null Hypothesis
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Progress in science often comes from discovering invariances in the relationship between variables. Invariances correspond to null hypotheses. As is commonly known, it is not possible to accumulate evidence for the null hypothesis in conventional significance testing. We highlight a Bayes factor alternative to the t-test for accumulating evidence for either the null or alternative hypotheses. The Bayes factor is straightforward to implement, is based on reasonable assumptions, and has better properties than either statistical equivalence or null-hypothesis significance testing.
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