Time to switch?

A controlled randomized experiment is often seen as a gold standard in experimental research. But in many situations ethical considerations make it impossible to conduct such a ‘real’ experiment. For instance in education it can be considered unethical to deny a group of students an educational intervention of which we assume a high impact on their achievement. The ‘switching-replication’ design can come to the rescue! In this post we will shortly describe this experimental design and demonstrate how we can model data coming from such a design making use of one of my favourite packages in R: brms. So we will approach it in a Bayesian way!

Publication year:2021

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