2. 論文化にあたり報告すべきこと
• Kruschke, J. K. (2011). Doing bayesian data analysis: A
tutorial with R and BUGS. Burlington, MA: Academic
Press/Elsevier
• ベイズ推定を用いた場合の
標準的な報告方法はまだ確立
されていない・・・
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5. なんのためにベイズを使用するか述べよ
事例1a:NJSTと違ってヌルな値を受けれられる,正
規分布の代わりにデータに合わせた分布が使用可能
From this explicit distribution of credible parameter
values, inferences about null values can be made without
ever referring to p values as in null hypothesis significance
testing (NHST). Unlike NHST, the Bayesian method can
accept the null value, not only reject it, when certainty in
the estimate is high. The new method handles outliers by
describing the data as heavy tailed distributions instead of
normal distributions, to the extent implied by the data.
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Kruschke, J. K. (2013). Bayesian estimation supersedes the t test. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 142, 573-603.
6. なんのためにベイズを使用するか述べよ
事例2a:事前分布の利用により,小さいサンプルサ
イズでも安定した分析が可能になる
Given a small sample containing relatively scant
information about the population parameters, however,
Bayesian estimates are more heavily weighted toward the
prior. It is the influence of the prior distribution that helps
stabilize and anchor Bayesian parameter estimates in the
presence of small samples (Song & Lee, 2012, p. 36).
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Ozechowski, T. J. (2014). Empirical bayes MCMC estimation for modeling treatment processes,
mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889
12. 事前分布の適切性を明確にせよ
事例2c:Empirical Bayesによる分析手続きと事前分布の指定
The SEM shown in Figures 1–4 was fit to the data for the
23 adolescents and parents in the pilot sample using the EB
statistical approach outlined previously. First, an initial fitting
of the SEM employing robust ML estimation was implemented
in the LISREL 8 software (Jöreskog & Sörbom, 1996–2001;
Jöreskog, Sörbom, du Toit, & du Toit, 1999). Next, the
resulting ML parameter estimates and robust standard errors
were utilized as prior parameters in a subsequent fitting of the
SEM using Bayesian statistical methods in the PROC MCMC
package of the SAS/STAT 12.1 software.
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Ozechowski, T. J. (2014). Empirical bayes MCMC estimation for modeling treatment processes,
mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889
13. 事前分布の適切性を明確にせよ
事例2c:事前分布の適切性
In the current analysis, however, rather than using
inverse-gamma priors for the variance parameters,
independent gamma (α, λ) priors were specified based on
the recommendations of Chung et al. (2011), where α is the
shape parameter and λ is the scale parameter of the gamma
distribution. Chung et al. (2011) preferred the gamma over
the inverse-gamma prior because the latter density function
is flat at the lower bound of zero, ・・・.
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Ozechowski, T. J. (2014). Empirical bayes MCMC estimation for modeling treatment processes,
mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889
15. MCMCの詳細について言及せよ
事例2d:MCMCの実施における設定
One hundred thousand simulated draws from the
posterior were obtained for each parameter. The simulated
draws were preceded by 2,000 “burn in” draws, which were
discarded from the analysis. To reduce temporal
autocorrelation among the draws, the MCMC chain was
thinned by including only every 20th draw, yielding 5,000
simulated posterior observations.
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Ozechowski, T. J. (2014). Empirical bayes MCMC estimation for modeling treatment processes,
mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889
16. MCMCの詳細について言及せよ
事例2d:MCMC収束のエビデンス
Table S2 in the online supplemental materials presents
rL50, the MCSE/PSD ratio, W, B, and ˆR for each parameter
in the SEM. To summarize, across all 46 parameters rL50
ranged in absolute value from 0.00 to 0.05, indicating
minimal autocorrelation between posterior draws and good
mixing of the chains and traversing of the parameter space
for all parameters. Likewise, values of MCSE/ PSD ranged
from .01 to .09, indicating satisfactory levels of stability in
the MCMC chain for all parameters.
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Ozechowski, T. J. (2014). Empirical bayes MCMC estimation for modeling treatment processes,
mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889
17. MCMCの詳細について言及せよ
事例2d:MCMC収束のエビデンス
Finally, values of Rˆ equaled 1.0 for all parameters,
indicating convergence across the seven chains initiated
from disparate starting values (i.e., the separate chains
arrived at the same destination from different starting
points). By all indications, it appeared that the MCMC
algorithm achieved convergence for all SEM parameters,
meaning that the simulated posterior values were drawn
from the true posterior for each parameter.
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mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889
20. MCMCの詳細について言及せよ
事例2e:
Regarding the clinical process–mechanism–outcome
linkages examined in the SEM, EB results for the regression
parameters in the structural portion of the SEM (see Figure
4) suggest a positive effect of the following sets of therapist
interventions on change in family functioning: (a)
proportion of individually focused general interventions (BE
(7,9) 17.49, 95% credible interval [6.41, 28.29])
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Ozechowski, T. J. (2014). Empirical bayes MCMC estimation for modeling treatment processes,
mechanisms of change, and clinical outcome in small sample. Journal of Consulting and
Clinical Psychology, Doi: 10.1037/a0035889