The FDA has released draft guidance on how sponsors can use Bayesian models for clinical trials.

The FDA has opened the door to the use of Bayesian statistical methods in clinical trials. The worry: Introducing ...

Bayesian inference has been used for genetic risk calculation. In this traditional method, inheritance events are divided into a number of cases under the inheritance model, and some elements of the ...

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 ...

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it step by step, and see real-world examples.

Scientists have developed a method to identify symmetries in multi-dimensional data using Bayesian statistical techniques. Bayesian statistics has been in the spotlight in recent years due to ...

Empirical Bayes is a versatile approach to “learn from a lot” in two ways: first, from a large number of variables and, second, from a potentially large amount of prior information, for example, ...

Rare disease is a major – and growing – area of clinical research and drug development. Of the FDA’s 46 novel drug approvals ...