Background Consider these four conditions: There is no reliable prior information about an effect and an uninformative prior is used in the Bayesian analysis There is only one look at the data The look was pre-planned and not data-dependent A one-sided assessment is of interest, so that one-tailed p-values and Bayesian posterior probabilities are used, where is the effect parameter of interest (e.g., difference in means, log effect ratio) and means “conditional on” or “given”. One-Sid...
