Last time, using Takaaki Yoshimoto's auxiliary line of 'communal illusion,' I discussed how the common sense and rules instilled in us by society bind our perception as rigid 'prior probabilities ...

Given that he is the father of a theory with such a profound impact on the world, one might imagine that Thomas Bayes (c. 1701–1761) was a world-renowned mathematical genius who left his mark on ...

The word 'statistics' has two meanings—the use of numbers to describe whole patterns of activity (for example, baseball statistics), and the analytic methods that allow manipulation of such data. The ...

The functions are not limited, we will keep on going in enriching hibayes with more features. the genotype and the names of genotyped individuals in the same order with genotype should be prepared ...

Healthcare decisions should be based on all relevant evidence.1 Usually, this is provided by randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing two or more interventions for a condition affecting a target ...

Objective Unlike several other fields of healthcare, little is known about the size of ‘therapist effects’ on patient ...

To dig through all of this data, the researchers used a Bayesian statistics approach, a way of coming up with a probability distribution rather than a black-and-white, yes-or-no answer. In this case, ...

The project automatically fetches the latest papers from arXiv based on keywords. The subheadings in the README file represent the search keywords. Only the most recent articles for each keyword are ...

Objective To review the effects of school closures on pandemic and seasonal influenza outbreaks. Design Systematic review. Data sources MEDLINE and EMBASE, reference lists of identified articles, hand ...