How To Speed Up the Search for Cures Through a Change in Probability Theory

If the FDA follows through with the proposed guidelines, and they are not fatally twisted by pressure from the medical ...
Ars Technica

Bayes’ theorem: Its triumphs and discontents

Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...
JSTOR Daily

Self-consistent confidence sets and tests of composite hypotheses applicable to restricted parameters

Frequentist methods, without the coherence guarantees of fully Bayesian methods, are known to yield self-contradictory inferences in certain settings. The framework introduced in this paper provides a ...
JSTOR Daily

BAYESIAN INFERENCE ON MULTIVARIATE MEDIANS AND QUANTILES

We consider Bayesian inferences on a type of multivariate median and the multivariate quantile functionals of a joint distribution using a Dirichlet process prior. Unlike univariate quantiles, the ...
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Bayesian Inference

This course is available on the BSc in Actuarial Science, BSc in Business Mathematics and Statistics, BSc in Mathematics with Economics and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Business. This course is ...