Reporting Guidelines

These guidelines can be referred to by citing the package:

Reporting Guidelines

Based on the previous comparison of point-estimates and indices of effect existence, we can conclude that:

Thus, to minimally describe the posterior distribution of a parameter, we suggest reporting the median and the 90% CI (using HDI rather than quantiles) for parameter characterisation and, in the context of null-hypothesis testing, the Probability of Direction (pd) for effect existence and, especially in the context of confirmatory analyses, the ROPE percentage (full) with an explicitly specified range for effect significance.

Interpretation Rules of Thumb

The following thresholds are presented as landmarks only, and any use of such “labels” should be explicitly justified. Please consider with caution.

Note: If you have any advice, opinion or such, we encourage you to let us know by opening an discussion thread or making a pull request.

Template Sentence

Based on these suggestions, a template sentence for minimal reporting of a parameter based on its posterior distribution could be: