When successive randomized trials contradict prior evidence, clinicians may be unsure how to evaluate them: Does accumulating evidence warrant changing practice? An increasingly popular solution, ...

Purpose: Risk assessment is an essential component of genetic counseling and testing, and Bayesian analysis plays a central role in complex risk calculations. We previously developed generalizable ...

The dissection of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits, including the number and locations of quantitative trait loci (QTL) and their main and epistatic effects, has been an important topic ...

The increasing interest in Bayesian group sequential design is due to its potential to reinforce efficiency in clinical trials, shorten drug development time, and enhance the accuracy of statistical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Gerry Clarke. Sir, I beg to differ with Professor Wilfred Beckerman (Letters, October 8). The model he ...

Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in very low failure probabilities, which are then combined with ...

Based on remote sensing of a potential minefield, point locations are identified, some of which may not be mines. The mines and mine-like objects are to be distinguished based on their point patterns, ...

This course is available on the MSc in African Development, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Health and International Development, MSc in International Development and ...

This post originally appeared on Allen Downey’s personal blog. Last fall I taught an introduction to Bayesian statistics at Olin College. My students worked on some excellent projects, and I invited ...

This course is available on the MSc in Comparative Politics, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Health and International Development, MSc in ...