New FDA guidance on the use of Bayesian statistics signals a broader shift in accommodating more flexible clinical trial ...

Industry groups and drugmakers want the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explicitly clarify that Bayesian statistical methods can be used for products beyond those intended for children and ...

Articulate the primary interpretations of probability theory and the role these interpretations play in Bayesian inference Use Bayesian inference to solve real-world statistics and data science ...

The FDA’s new draft guidance on Bayesian methods in clinical trials has been hailed by some as a breakthrough that could speed drug development. But statisticians and researchers are divided on ...

Rapid and targeted management actions are a prerequisite to efficiently mitigate disease outbreaks. Targeted actions, however, require accurate spatial information on disease occurrence and spread.

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 ...

The "replication crisis" refers to a problem in the sciences where findings from previous experiments don't hold up when studies are repeated. It is a particular issue for those in the behavioral ...

Bayesian quantile regression extends the classical quantile regression framework by embedding it within a probabilistic paradigm, allowing direct inference on conditional quantiles through ...

Scientists have developed a method to identify symmetries in multi-dimensional data using Bayesian statistical techniques. Bayesian statistics has been in the spotlight in recent years due to ...