# 22.6: Bayes Factor


We discussed Bayes factors in the earlier chapter on Bayesian statistics – you may remember that it represents the ratio of the likelihood of the data under each of the two hypotheses: $K = \frac{P(data|H_A)}{P(data|H_0)} = \frac{P(H_A|data)*P(H_A)}{P(H_0|data)*P(H_0)}$ We can compute the Bayes factor for the police search data using the contingencyTableBF() function from the BayesFactor package:

## Bayes factor analysis
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## [1] Non-indep. (a=1) : 1.8e+142 ±0%
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## Against denominator:
##   Null, independence, a = 1
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## Bayes factor type: BFcontingencyTable, independent multinomial

This shows that the evidence in favor of a relationship between driver race and police searches in this dataset is exceedingly strong.

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