The FDA has released draft guidance on how sponsors can use Bayesian models for clinical trials.

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 ...

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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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 147, No. 2, The 150th Anniversary of the Royal Statistical Society (1984), pp. 245-259 (15 pages) Basic ideas and methods of Bayesian ...

We consider the usual proportional hazards model in the case where the baseline hazard, the covariate link, and the covariate coefficients are all unknown. Both the baseline hazard and the covariate ...

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 ...