Savage_Dickey_BF: Compute Savage-Dickey inclusion Bayes factors

In BayesTools: Tools for Bayesian Analyses

Compute Savage-Dickey inclusion Bayes factors

Description

Computes Savage-Dickey (density ratio) inclusion Bayes factors based the change of height from prior to posterior distribution at the test value.

Usage

Savage_Dickey_BF(
  posterior,
  null_hypothesis = 0,
  normal_approximation = FALSE,
  silent = FALSE
)

Arguments

posterior	marginal posterior distribution generated via the marginal_posterior function
null_hypothesis	point null hypothesis to test. Defaults to 0
normal_approximation	whether the height of prior and posterior density should be approximated via a normal distribution (rather than kernel density). Defaults to FALSE.
silent	whether warnings should be returned silently. Defaults to FALSE

Value

Savage_Dickey_BF returns a Bayes factor.

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