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Posterior Probability of Discovery and Expected Rate of Discovery for Multiple Hypothesis Testing and High Throughput Assays

Technologies of measuring millions of quantities at once have been rapidly developed and used in biological and biomedical research and other fields in the past decade. Yet a key issue remains ...
Simon Fraser University

Posterior Probability Error-Rate Estimates

The posterior probability error-rate estimates (Fukunaga and Kessell 1973; Glick 1978; Hora and Wilcox 1982) for each group are based on the posterior probabilities of the observations classified into ...
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Information and Posterior Probability Criteria for Model Selection in Local Likelihood Estimation

Local likelihood estimation has proven to be an effective method for obtaining estimates of parameters that vary with a covariate. To obtain useful estimates of such parameters, approximating models ...
Nature

Confidence and certainty: distinct probabilistic quantities for different goals

William James famously wrote, “Everyone knows what attention is”. Yet cognitive scientists are still struggling to come up with a clear definition of attention. The same might be said of confidence.
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Spectral Medical Inc.: Spectral Medical and Vantive Announce Topline Results from Spectral's Tigris Trial Evaluating PMX Hemoadsorption Therapy for Endotoxic Septic Shock

Results exceed prespecified primary endpoint of 95% posterior probability of benefit for PMX on 28-day mortality Pooled absolute risk reduction of 8.3%; Relative risk reduction of 18% Key secondary ...