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 ...

I like Bayesian statistics but I hate the way they are being forced upon us as the only way of knowing God. And I think frequentist statistics have much to recommend themselves, even when embedded 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The FDA’s new draft guidance on Bayesian methods in clinical trials has been hailed by some as a breakthrough that could speed drug development.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 ...