Creating a Proxy for Baseline Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status in Electronic Health Records for Comparative Effectiveness Research in Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer ...

It is well known that standard frequentist inference breaks down in IV regressions with weak instruments. Bayesian inference with diffuse priors suffers from the same problem. We show that the issue ...

Abstract: This work introduces the three-parameter sine Kumaraswamy Shanker distribution (SKSD), a novel extension of the Shanker distribution that seeks to further enhance the flexibility of ...

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence improved less than expected in July and households' perceptions of current job availability were the weakest in nearly 4-1/2 years, consistent ...

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ABSTRACT: Accurate estimation of disease prevalence is crucial for effective public health intervention and resource allocation. Generating data by individual testing methods is often impractical and ...

Abstract: This study addresses the challenge of estimating parameters for two Gamma populations that share a common scale parameter but differ in their shape parameters, within the context of fuzzy ...

Mathematics Department, Egerton University, Njoro Nakuru, Kenya. Bayesian techniques have been applied in many epidemiological settings, such as disease monitoring, outbreak simulation, and prevalence ...

One economic indicator just flashed its strongest recession signal since 2013, according to a new survey from the Conference Board think tank, revealing the tense attitude among consumers despite a ...

The level in the Conference Board’s latest monthly survey was the lowest since January 2021. By Danielle Kaye Americans are increasingly anxious about their jobs and finances as the Trump ...

Frequentist methods, without the coherence guarantees of fully Bayesian methods, are known to yield self-contradictory inferences in certain settings. The framework introduced in this paper provides a ...

It's a sentiment I hear from nearly every parent I work with as a performance psychologist. Yet in our eagerness to build confident young athletes, we often take actions that achieve exactly the ...