According to the American Cancer Society report (1999), cancer surpasses heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States of America (USA) for people of age less than 85. Thus, medical research in cancer is an important public health interest. Understanding how medical...

This paper aims at illustrating the importance of using -paths in Bayesian estimation of a unimodal density on the real line. A class of species sampling mixture models containing random densities that are unimodal and not necessarily symmetric is considered. A novel and explicit...

type="main" xml:id="rssc12076-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Post-market medical product surveillance is important for detecting rare adverse events that are not identified during preapproval. The goal of surveillance is to assess over time for elevated rates of adverse events for new medical products. These...</p>