A Critical Analysis of Null Hypothesis Testing and its Alternatives (Including Bayesian Analysis)

This course will provide a detailed critique of the methods and philosophy of the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) approach to statistics which is currently dominant in social and biomedical science. We will contrast NHST with alternatives, especially with Bayesian methods. We will use computer code to demonstrate some issues. However, we will focus on the big picture rather on the implementation of specific procedures.

• Postgraduate students and staff
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here

• Students should have studied some basic statistics before this course.

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