Bayesian statistics represents a powerful framework for data analysis that centres on Bayes’ theorem, enabling researchers to update existing beliefs with incoming evidence. By combining prior ...

The FDA's move to incorporate Bayesian statistical methods into clinical trials of drugs and biologics garnered special treatment in JAMA this week. JAMA published three perspectives -- two welcoming ...

With so many worlds out there, the question is: How many are home to advanced life? In a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, David Kipping from Columbia ...

The primary goal of the trial was to optimize radiation therapy (RT) dose among three levels (low, standard, and high), given either with placebo (P) or an investigational agent (A), for treating ...

Here’s our estimate of public support for vouchers, broken down by religion/ethnicity, income, and state: (Click on image to see larger version.) We’re mapping estimates from a hierarchical Bayes ...

It turns out that the old adage about statistics and damned lies wasn’t a joke. Sticks and stones may be bonebreakers, and words inflict no (physical) pain, but numbers can kill. In 2004, for instance ...

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Everyone who spends time with children knows how incredibly much they learn. But how can babies and young children possibly learn so much so quickly? In a recent article in Science, I describe a ...