Discover how credibility theory helps actuaries use historical data to estimate risks and set insurance premiums; learn how ...

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Bayesian statistics represents a powerful framework for data analysis that centres on Bayes’ theorem, enabling researchers to update existing beliefs with incoming evidence. By combining prior ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 76, No. 5 (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 833-859 (27 pages) The choice of the summary statistics that are used in Bayesian ...

Here’s our estimate of public support for vouchers, broken down by religion/ethnicity, income, and state: (Click on image to see larger version.) We’re mapping estimates from a hierarchical Bayes ...

Some of you may have come across a growing number of publications in your field using an alternative paradigm called Bayesian statistics in which to perform their statistical analyses. The goal of ...

Bayesian spatial statistics and modeling represent a robust inferential framework where uncertainty in spatial processes is explicitly quantified through probability distributions. This approach ...