In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

As rare disease trials face persistent feasibility challenges, Bayesian designs are gaining momentum by enabling more flexible, data-driven approaches that integrate prior knowledge, reduce sample ...

Google Research has proposed a training method that teaches large language models to approximate Bayesian reasoning by learning from the predictions of an optimal Bayesian system. The approach focuses ...

Empirical Bayes is a versatile approach to “learn from a lot” in two ways: first, from a large number of variables and, second, from a potentially large amount of prior information, for example, ...

Marty Makary was appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2025. The prominent surgeon, medical researcher, bestselling author, and critic of the medical ...