Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 41, No. 4 (1992), pp. 389-397 (9 pages) The problem of sample size determination in the context of Bayesian analysis, ...

Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in very low failure probabilities, which are then combined with ...

We review Bayesian and Bayesian decision theoretic approaches to subgroup analysis and applications to subgroup-based adaptive clinical trial designs. Subgroup analysis refers to inference about ...

Sample size determination is among the most commonly encountered tasks in statistical practice. A broad range of frequentist and Bayesian methods for sample size determination can be described as ...

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