American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on July 4, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwn152
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The Author Responds to "Evaluating p Values and Bayes Factors"
1 Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
2 Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Ioannina, Greece
3 Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Correspondence to Dr. John P. A. Ioannidis, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, University Campus, Ioannina 45110, Greece (e-mail: jioannid@cc.uoi.gr).
Received for publication March 26, 2008. Accepted for publication May 8, 2008.
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Katki (1) offers a very insightful commentary on various Bayesian options for making inferences. Just for graphical clarification, the prior I proposed (2) has a spike-and-smear configuration (figure 1); this is computationally equivalent to what Katki shows in his figure 1 for support of observed data (after we see the data). One should beware that the amount of mass