So now, for statistically challenged individuals, I present my translation of Steve’s calculations, Bayesian math for dummies. The Problem Steve’s friend received a positive test for a disease. The disease occurs infrequently in the general population. The test accurately identifies people who have...
Instrumental variable analysis helps in addressing potential confounding in observational studies by finding an instrument (a variable that is correlated with the treatment but not directly associated with the outcome) to isolate the causal effect.The intuition for the instrument variable was earlier descr...
2.2. Bayesian Bland–Altman Analysis For the Bayesian perspective, the proposal by Alari, Kim, and Wand was employed, including respectiveSupplemental Materials[25]. Assuming that the differences follow a normal distribution with mean µ and standard deviation σ and given a pre-specified benchmark...