Bayesian estimation and maximum likelihood methods represent two central paradigms in modern statistical inference. Bayesian estimation incorporates prior beliefs through Bayes’ theorem, updating ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 180, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2017), pp. 1191-1209 (19 pages) Area level models, such as the Fay–Herriot model, aim to improve ...

The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 852-885 (34 pages) Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments ...

Bayesian networks, also known as Bayes nets, belief networks, or decision networks, are a powerful tool for understanding and reasoning about complex systems under uncertainty. They are essentially ...

That’s because a new framework is improving the probabilistic reasoning of LLMS like ChatGPT and Gemini. School of ...