Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in very low failure probabilities, which are then combined with ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 41, No. 4 (1992), pp. 389-397 (9 pages) The problem of sample size determination in the context of Bayesian analysis, ...

In this paper we develop a general framework of Bayesian influence analysis for assessing various perturbation schemes to the data, the prior and the sampling distribution for a class of statistical ...

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 ...

A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016.

Background There are many injection therapies for lateral epicondylalgia but there has been no previous comprehensive comparison, based on the Bayesian method. Methods The MEDLINE, EMBASE and the ...