Comparações múltiplas bayesianas em modelos normais homocedásticos e heterocedásticos

Abstract

Multiple comparison procedures are used to compare factor's levels means, since the most popular tests show problems related to ambiguous results and to the control of the type I error rates. Moreover, their performance is worst in heterocedastics and unbalanced cases. The objective of this work is to propose a Bayesian alternative for multiple comparisons considering the homocedastic and heterocedastic normal models. The methodology adopted in this paper was based on a posteriori multivariate t distribution. It was used k Monte Carlo chains of the mean factor to make inferences. The standardized range was obtained, under H0, from the posteriori distribution of the means, for the analysis of homocedastic and heterocedastic cases. The bayesian procedures of multiple comparisons were successfully proposed.