This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m not sure when I first heard of Bayes’ ...

We assessed the credibility of our findings using a standard Bayesian framework 18,19 in which a positive fraction of SNPs have null effects and a positive fraction of SNPs have non-null effects ...

A common misconception about Bayesian statistics is that it mainly involves incorporating personal prior beliefs or subjective opinions. While priors do play a role, the core strength of Bayesian ...