Why should clinicians care about Bayesian methods?

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-58

  A j Matthews, Robert ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002218709     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00232-9     Document Type: Note

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