Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Experiments and Variables
2. Probabilities, Likelihood, and Inference
3. Fitting Bayesian Regression Models with brms
4. Inspecting a ‘Single Group’ of Observations using a Bayesian Multilevel Model
5. Comparing Two Groups of Observations: Factors and Contrasts
6. Variation in Parameters (‘Random Effects’) and Model Comparison
7. Comparing Many Groups, Interactions, and Posterior Predictive Checks
8. Varying Variances, More about Priors, and Prior Predictive Checks
9. Quantitative Predictors and their Interactions with Factors
10. Logistic Regression and Signal Detection Theory Models
11. Multiple Quantitative Predictors, Dealing with Large Models, and Bayesian ANOVA
12. Multinomial and Ordinal Regression
13. Writing up Experiments: An investigation of the Perception of Apparent Speaker Characteristics from Speech Acoustics