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It's getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

Bayesian statistical models use prior data to update the probability of a hypothesis as new evidence emerges. Image credit: PeopleImages / Shutterstock.com Bayesian statistical models could help ...

Bayesian analysis is being used with increasing frequency in critical care research and brings advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional Frequentist techniques. This study overviews this ...

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During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

Understanding what causes disease is key to improving its treatment and prevention. Large health studies like UK Biobank measure thousands of possible causes of disease. Traditionally, scientists have ...

ABSTRACT: This study explores the application of Bayesian econometrics in policy evaluation through theoretical analysis. The research first reviews the theoretical foundations of Bayesian methods, ...

The Bayesian approach to statistical inference and other data analysis tasks gets its name from Bayes’s theorem (BT). BT specifies that a posterior probability for a hypothesis concerning a data ...