Bayesian and frequentist models: Legitimate choices for different purposes of clinical research

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1045-1047

  Berger, Zackary ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesianism; causality; estimation; frequentism; modelling; probability; statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVALUATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 78650603954     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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