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		Bayesian Estimation and Validation for Small-N Designs with Rater
		Bias // Approximate Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo
		validation for small-N repeated-measures designs with two time
		points and two raters. The package is intended for applications
		in which sample size is limited and the observed outcome may be
		affected by rater-specific bias. User-supplied data are
		standardised into a common long-format structure. Pre-post
		effects are analysed using difference scores in a linear model
		with a rater indicator as covariate. Posterior summaries for
		the regression coefficients are obtained from a large-sample
		normal approximation centred at the least-squares estimate with
		plug-in covariance under a flat improper prior. Evidence for a
		non-zero pre-post effect, adjusted for rater differences, is
		summarised using a BIC-based approximation to the Bayes factor
		for comparison between models with and without the pre-post
		effect. Monte Carlo validation uses design quantities estimated
		from the observed data, including sample size, mean pre-post
		change, and second-rater additive discrepancy, and summarises
		inferential performance in terms of bias, root mean squared
		error, credible interval coverage, posterior tail
		probabilities, and mean Bayes factor values. For background on
		the BIC approximation and Bayes factors, see Schwarz (1978)
		doi:10.1214/aos/1176344136 and Kass and Raftery (1995)
		doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476572.
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