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Throughout this book, the topic of order restricted inference is dealt with almost exclusively from a Bayesian perspective. Some readers may wonder why the other main school for statistical inference – frequentist inference – has received so little attention here. Isn’t it true that in the field of psychology, almost all inference is frequentist inference?
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Wagenmakers, EJ., Lee, M., Lodewyckx, T., Iverson, G.J. (2008). Bayesian Versus Frequentist Inference. In: Hoijtink, H., Klugkist, I., Boelen, P.A. (eds) Bayesian Evaluation of Informative Hypotheses. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09612-4_9
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