This is a guest post by Nathan Paxton. As social scientists, at least as regards what we can empirically assess, we tend to make statements of probability rather than fact. So rather than say that ...

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 ...

The FDA’s new draft guidance on Bayesian methods in clinical trials has been hailed by some as a breakthrough that could speed drug development. But statisticians and researchers are divided on ...

In the announcement, FDA Commissioner Mackary said, “Bayesian methodologies help address two of the biggest problems of drug ...