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

First, we need to estimate the pre-test probability that asymptomatic Massachusetts residents have Covid-19. We know that in the state approximately 2% of all tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

Asymptotically optimal empirical Bayes squared error loss estimation procedures are developed for three families of continuous distributions, uniform $(0, \theta ...