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

If the FDA follows through with the proposed guidelines, and they are not fatally twisted by pressure from the medical ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

Bayes’ theorem: Its triumphs and discontents

Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...
JSTOR Daily

BAYESIAN INFERENCE ON MULTIVARIATE MEDIANS AND QUANTILES

We consider Bayesian inferences on a type of multivariate median and the multivariate quantile functionals of a joint distribution using a Dirichlet process prior. Unlike univariate quantiles, the ...
lse

Bayesian Inference

This course is available on the BSc in Actuarial Science, BSc in Business Mathematics and Statistics, BSc in Mathematics with Economics and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Business. This course is ...