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 ...

An empirical Bayes analysis of life-time data is described. The paper examines and extends the model discussed by Kalbfleisch (1978) in which the cumulative hazard function is treated as a gamma ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 180, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2017), pp. 1191-1209 (19 pages) Area level models, such as the Fay–Herriot model, aim to improve ...

In the ever-evolving toolkit of statistical analysis techniques, Bayesian statistics has emerged as a popular and powerful methodology for making decisions from data in the applied sciences. Bayesian ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m not sure when I first heard of Bayes’ ...

Correspondence to Dr Ada Tang, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, Canada; atang{at}mcmaster.ca Objective To determine the superiority of ...