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ArticleCommunications psychology2025

Bayesian p-curve mixture models as a tool to dissociate effect size and effect prevalence.

John P Veillette, Howard C Nusbaum

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Article in Communications psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Timing of Speech in Brain and Glottis and the Feedback Delay Problem in Motor Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  2. Overlapping Cortical Substrate of Biomechanical Control and Subjective Agency.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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2 authors.

John P VeilletteDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. johnv@uchicago.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0332-4372
Howard C NusbaumDepartment of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) 1746045National Science Foundation (NSF) 2024923
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much research in the behavioral sciences aims to characterize the "typical" person. A statistically significant group-averaged effect size is often interpreted as evidence that the typical person shows an effect, but that is only true under certain distributional assumptions for which explicit evidence is rarely presented. Mean effect size varies with both within-participant effect size and population prevalence (proportion of population showing effect). Few studies consider how prevalence affects mean effect size estimates and existing estimators of prevalence are, conversely, confounded by uncertainty about effect size. We introduce a widely applicable Bayesian method, the p-curve mixture model, that jointly estimates prevalence and effect size by probabilistically clustering participant-level data based on their likelihood under a null distribution. Our approach, for which we provide a software tool, outperforms existing prevalence estimation methods when effect size is uncertain and is sensitive to differences in prevalence or effect size across groups or conditions.

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PMID39843780
PMCPMC11754609

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