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 ...

Bayesian approaches to statistical inference combine prior beliefs with observed data through a likelihood function to yield a posterior distribution, offering a coherent framework for uncertainty ...

Some of you may have come across a growing number of publications in your field using an alternative paradigm called Bayesian statistics in which to perform their statistical analyses. The goal of ...

Comparison of concurrent chemoradiation therapy with 3-weekly versus weekly cisplatin in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancer: A multicenter randomized phase II noninferiority trial ...

The primary goal of the trial was to optimize radiation therapy (RT) dose among three levels (low, standard, and high), given either with placebo (P) or an investigational agent (A), for treating ...

The main focus of this short course will be the Bayesian aspect of it. That means this is a slightly more advanced course requiring some knowledge of basic probability, regression methods, and the R ...

Calculating a moving average is a common way researchers “smooth” out the irregularities in year-to-year counts produced by the way the counts are actually performed. Yet this method has never been ...