Outcome-dependent sampling increases the efficiency of studies of rare outcomes, examples being case-control studies in epidemiology and choice-based sampling in econometrics. Two-phase or double ...

Gentleman & Geyer (1994) discuss the analysis of interval censored data and present results based on standard convex optimisation theory. Here, this problem is viewed from the perspective of a mixing ...

Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...