Abstract:One of the key developments in psychological data analysis is the Bayesian implementation. This article aims to introduce Bayesian statistics application in psychological research. A data set of Marital Satisfaction and Positive Affect (n = 200) became an example to compare the regression results based on frequentist and Bayesian statistics. The data analysis examined the influence of positive affect on marital satisfaction. Based upon the prior information and observed data, results suggest that the average o… Show more
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