No, they are linked to beliefs (like anything else), but the canonical forms do differ a lot. Most importantly:
- bayesian methods give you posterior distributions rather than point estimates and SEs
- bayesian methods natively offer prior and posterior predictive checks
- with bayesian methods, it's evidently easier to combine knowledge from multiple sources, which null-hypothesis testing struggles with (best way is probably still meta-analyses)
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No, they are linked to beliefs (like anything else), but the canonical forms do differ a lot. Most importantly:
- bayesian methods give you posterior distributions rather than point estimates and SEs
- bayesian methods natively offer prior and posterior predictive checks
- with bayesian methods, it's evidently easier to combine knowledge from multiple sources, which null-hypothesis testing struggles with (best way is probably still meta-analyses)