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3 - Heuristic Bayesian Reasoning

from Part II - Operationalizing Bayesian Reasoning in Qualitative Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

Tasha Fairfield  and
Andrew E. Charman
Tasha Fairfield
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Andrew E. Charman
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Summary

This chapter explicates how to apply heuristic Bayesian reasoning in qualitative case study research. Steps include defining a set of mutually exclusive hypotheses to compare, assessing prior odds, identifying evidence, evaluating likelihood ratios for the evidence, and updating via Bayes’ rule to obtain posterior odds for the hypotheses.

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Bayes’ ruleBayesian updatingqualitative researchcase studiesprocess tracingrival hypothesesqualitative methods
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Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference
Rethinking Qualitative Research
 , pp. 73 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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