5 papers
Why bother with Bayesian t-tests?
Fintan Costello, Paul Watts
Given the well-known and fundamental problems with hypothesis testing via classical (point-form) significance tests, there has been a general move to alternative approaches, often…
Homeostatic behavioural response to COVID-19 infections returns R to a set-point of 1
Fintan Costello, Paul Watts, Rita Howe
One clear aspect of behaviour in the COVID-19 pandemic has been people's focus on, and response to, reported or observed infection numbers in their community. We describe a simple…
Significance and Replication in simple counting experiments: Distributional Null Hypothesis Testing
Fintan Costello, Paul Watts
Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) has long been of central importance to psychology as a science, guiding theory development and underlying the application of evidence-ba…
Distributional Null Hypothesis Testing with the T distribution
Fintan Costello, Paul Watts
Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) has long been central to the scientific project, guiding theory development and supporting evidence-based intervention and decision-maki…
Jacobsthal's function and a generalisation of Euler's totient
Fintan Costello, Paul Watts
Jacobsthal's function h(k) represents the smallest number m such that every sequence of m consecutive integers contains an integer coprime to P_k, the product of the first k primes…