New FDA guidance that’s a ‘huge deal’ for clinical trials

The guidance encourages the use of Bayesian statistics in drug trials. Instead of starting from scratch and only adding new ...
Opinion

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

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The BMJ

FDA is now “open to bayesian statistics”: transformational change or new Pandora’s box?

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now “open to bayesian statistics,” contrasting this with the frequentist approach that the agency and the drug industry have historically relied on for ...
ascopubs.org

Bayesian Approaches to Subgroup Analysis and Related Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs

We review Bayesian and Bayesian decision theoretic approaches to subgroup analysis and applications to subgroup-based adaptive clinical trial designs. Subgroup analysis refers to inference about ...
JSTOR Daily

SMALL AREA ESTIMATION OF GENERAL PARAMETERS WITH APPLICATION TO POVERTY INDICATORS: A HIERARCHICAL BAYES APPROACH

The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 852-885 (34 pages) Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments ...
International Monetary Fund

A Bayesian Approach to Model Uncertainty

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those ...

Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...