A tutorial on the what, why, and how of Bayesian analysis: Estimating mood and anxiety disorder prevalence using a Canadian data linkage study

• Myanca Rodrigues,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Biostatistics Unit, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7953-773X

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• Jordan Edwards,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Tea Rosic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7406-4056

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• Yanchen Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Jhalok Ronjan Talukdar,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9739-5632

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• Saifur R. Chowdhury,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Sameer Parpia,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Glenda Babe,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada

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• Claire de Oliveira,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada, ICES, Hamilton, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3961-6008

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• Richard Perez,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, ICES, Hamilton, Canada

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• Zainab Samaan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

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• Lehana Thabane

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * thabanl@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliations Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Biostatistics Unit, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0355-9734

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