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Linear mixed models in Linguistics and Psychology: A Comprehensive Introduction
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ch 2 Audrey suggested changes #25

Open vasishth opened 2 years ago

vasishth commented 2 years ago

Is there already a paragraph or two in the book about hypothesis testing, and the fact that these statistical tests only make sense with a priori hypotheses? I assume there will be a discussion about inference vs exploratory analyses later on but it would not harm to mention that these tests test one a priori defined hypothesis here already.

Also, I would add somewhere in this chapter an explanation of why this approach uses null hypothesis testing (i.e., the only hypothesis for which we have some information)

PS I don't understand the last sentence from Audrey.