The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance on Friday to assist sponsors in using Bayesian methods to support the safety and effectiveness of new drugs in clinical trials. These ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has begun a consultation into the use of Bayesian methods in the analysis of clinical trial data. Bayesian methods are one of the main approaches to statistical ...

Empirical Bayesian methods occupy a unique position at the interface of frequentist and Bayesian paradigms by estimating prior distributions directly from observed data. This approach preserves the ...

Approaches for statistical inference -- The Bayes approach -- Bayesian computation -- Model criticism and selection -- The empirical Bayes approach -- Bayesian design -- Special methods and models -- ...