Bayesian methods for health-related decision making

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 563-567

  Kadane, Joseph B ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Multiple decision makers; Posterior distribution; Prior distribution; Subjective probability; Utility function

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 13844272271     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2036     Document Type: Review

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