The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical ...

Large families of bivariate probability models based on Panjer-type relations are proposed. These relations are generated by differential equations of probability generating functions (p.g.fs), ...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers is a leading international journal of major research papers. It is one of the most widely read and cited geographical journals. It publishes ...

When evaluating a patient with stable chest pain and no known coronary artery disease (CAD), how does the clinician decide whether to order imaging or other diagnostic tests? One approach involves a ...

TWiST analysis to estimate overall benefit for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) patients (pts) treated in a phase III trial of sunitinib versus interferon-alfa (IFN-α). Background: The phase III ...