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

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Introduction Climate-sensitive mortality in rapidly urbanising tropical Africa is poorly characterised, and how pandemics disrupt established seasonal patterns remains underexplored. We analysed ...

Medical and surgical interventions are widely used to close a persistently patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants. Objective evidence to support these practices is lacking, causing some to ...

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BACKGROUND: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) and its severe form, chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), significantly impair blood flow to the lower extremities, affecting millions of adults ...

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Decision-making inherently involves cause–effect relationships that introduce causal challenges. We argue that reliable algorithms for decision-making need to build upon causal reasoning. Addressing ...

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1 Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H ...