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In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

Asymptotically optimal empirical Bayes squared error loss estimation procedures are developed for three families of continuous distributions, uniform $(0, \theta ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...