For more than 60 years, this blank slate approach has been the Food and Drug Administration’s gold standard — and for good ...

Discover how credibility theory helps actuaries use historical data to estimate risks and set insurance premiums; learn how ...

Bayesian statistics represents a powerful framework for data analysis that centres on Bayes’ theorem, enabling researchers to update existing beliefs with incoming evidence. By combining prior ...

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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 76, No. 5 (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 833-859 (27 pages) The choice of the summary statistics that are used in Bayesian ...

Here’s our estimate of public support for vouchers, broken down by religion/ethnicity, income, and state: (Click on image to see larger version.) We’re mapping estimates from a hierarchical Bayes ...

“Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, Lego, and Rubber Ducks,” by Will Kurt (2019 No Starch Press) is an excellent introduction to subjects ...