It started with some colored pencils. A little girl said her favorite color was pink. Her dad said he could prove her wrong. He took all her colored pencils and lined them up by length. The result was ...

Statistical Science, Vol. 26, No. 2, Special Issue on Bayesian Methods That Frequentists Should Know (May 2011), pp. 162-174 (13 pages) It is argued that the Calibrated Bayesian (CB) approach to ...

Improving the Care of Terminally Ill Cancer Patients and Their Families In this issue, Brown et al 8 report QoL outcomes from a non–small-cell lung cancer trial comparing supportive care regimens with ...

There are a lot of serious data quality problems in real world datasets: incomplete, redundant, inconsistent and noisy. Missing data is a common issue in data mining and knowledge discovery. It is ...

The analysis of longitudinal dyadic data is challenging due to the complicated correlations within and between dyads, as well as possibly non-ignorable dropouts. Based on a mixed-effects hybrid model, ...

Data is almost always incomplete. Patients drop out of clinical trials and survey respondents skip questions; schools fail to report scores, and governments ignore elements of their economies. When ...