| Saturday 4 May 2024 | |
| Events for day: Thursday 18 October 2018 |
| 10:00 - 11:00 Weekly Seminar Shannon Information for Bayesian Sample Size Determination School BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES The most frequently used methods for sample size determination in planning a trial are based on the required size and power of the experiment for a specified treatment effect. This approach is named the frequentist approach. In contrast, one of the Bayesian procedures which is called the fully Bayesian approach treats the problem as a decision problem and employs a utility function to find the optimal sample size of the trial by considering a tradeoff between cost and benefit of carrying out the trial. In this talk we focus on some computational issues of applying the fully Bayesian method and show how Shannon information would be able to dea ... |