We pursue our series of blog articles illustrating rjags programs for diagnostic meta-analysis with an article describing how to carry out Bayesian inference for the Hierarchical Summary Receiver Operating Characteristic (HSROC) meta-analysis...
Read moreBayesian inference for the Bivariate model for diagnostic meta-analysis
Contents OVERVIEW MOTIVATING EXAMPLE AND DATA THE MODEL INITIAL VALUES COMPILING AND RUNNING THE MODEL MONITORING CONVERGENCE SUMMARY STATISTICS SROC plot SCRIPT REFERENCES AUTHORS: Ian Schiller and Nandini Dendukuri OVERVIEW We are often...
Read moreBayesian Sample Size Calculations for Difference in Proportions
Want to use a Bayesian approach to plan your study for comparing proportions? The R package SampleSizeProportions implements sample size calculations based on different sample size criteria described in the article by Joseph, du Berger and...
Read moreLearning rjags using simple statistical models
Here are some examples of fitting simple statistical models in rjags. They are useful for beginners learning Bayesian inference using the rjags library. Notice in each case all that is required is specification of the probability density function...
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