Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...

The FDA has released draft guidance on how sponsors can use Bayesian models for clinical trials.

In genetic analysis, there are often competing explanations for the same data. Sophisticated mathematical models have been developed that can encapsulate these problems in terms of parameters 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 guidance encourages the use of Bayesian statistics in drug trials. Instead of starting from scratch and only adding new information from the trial, the framework allows researchers to incorporate ...

Introduction: Bayesian data mining methods have been used to evaluate drug safety signals from adverse event reporting systems and allow for evaluation of multiple endpoints that are not prespecified.

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to predict a person's sex based on their job type, eye color and country of residence. Naive Bayes classification is a classical machine learning ...