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Bayesian statistics represents a powerful framework for data analysis that centres on Bayes’ theorem, enabling researchers to update existing beliefs with incoming evidence. By combining prior ...

Here’s our estimate of public support for vouchers, broken down by religion/ethnicity, income, and state: (Click on image to see larger version.) We’re mapping estimates from a hierarchical Bayes ...

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 ...

Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way ($34.95, 256 pages) is the beginner’s guide to applying statistics to real-world situations, with exercises that place the reader in fun and familiar hypothetical ...

It turns out that the old adage about statistics and damned lies wasn’t a joke. Sticks and stones may be bonebreakers, and words inflict no (physical) pain, but numbers can kill. In 2004, for instance ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 76, No. 5 (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 833-859 (27 pages) The choice of the summary statistics that are used in Bayesian ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 147, No. 2, The 150th Anniversary of the Royal Statistical Society (1984), pp. 245-259 (15 pages) Basic ideas and methods of Bayesian ...

Wingify, one of India's leading product companies and a global leader in the A/B testing space, today unveiled its new statistics engine, SmartStats, which uses Bayesian statistics to power their ...