Feckler, Alexander
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Bayesian methods and frequentist confidence intervals are proposed as an alternative approach in ecotoxicology, emphasizing effect sizes and associated (un)certainties to judge the biological relevance of effects instead of basing decisions on p values. These approaches show advantages over null hypothesis significance testing. In particular, Bayesian methods revealed more potential than frequentist counterparts, as the posterior distribution and its credible intervals can be directly interpreted as the probability of effect sizes. Environ Toxicol Chem 2018;37:1949-1955. (c) 2018 SETAC
Keywords
Bayesian statistics; Confidence interval; Credible interval; Ecotoxicology; Effect size; Fungicide
Published in
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
2018, volume: 37, number: 7, pages: 1949-1955
Publisher: WILEY
SLU Authors
Low, Matthew
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Bundschuh, Mirco
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- University of Koblenz-Landau
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Environmental Sciences
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4127
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/95980