Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 63, No. 1 (2001), pp. 3-17 (15 pages) We present a Bayesian analysis of a piecewise linear model constructed using ...

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) is a nonparametric ensemble method that models complex relationships by summing a collection of decision trees, each operating as a weak learner. The Bayesian ...

Some of you may have come across a growing number of publications in your field using an alternative paradigm called Bayesian statistics in which to perform their statistical analyses. The goal of ...

BACKGROUND In recent years, much of the focus in monitoring child mortality has been on assessing changes in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR). However, as the U5MR decreases, the share of neonatal ...

Introduction Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder requiring ongoing medical management. This ecological study ...