Bayesian decision analysis for the drug-approval process (NSFW)

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2015-12-22

Summary:

Bill Jefferys points me to a paper, “Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design,” by Vahid Montazerhodjat and Andrew Lo. Here’s the abstract: Implicit in the drug-approval process is a trade-off between Type I and Type II error. We propose using Bayesian decision analysis (BDA) to […]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2015/12/14/bayesian-decision-analysis-for-the-drug-approval-process/

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Andrew

Date tagged:

12/22/2015, 16:54

Date published:

12/14/2015, 10:59