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The Long View 2006-12-13: Waiting for the Mahdi; AH and Iraq; Christmas Kitsch

I note that Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi did win election to the upper house in Iran in 2006, but that his party did not gain a majority in the legislature. The Wikipedia article is broadly consistent with Dr. Timothy Furnish’s description that John J. Reilly quotes here, but as this is

Apparently I'm half-Bayesian

Steve Hsu links to a paper by Judea Pearl on Bayesian statistics and causality. Judea Pearl: I turned Bayesian in 1971, as soon as I began reading Savage’s monograph The Foundations of Statistical Inference [Savage, 1962]. The arguments were unassailable: (i) It is plain silly to ignore what we

John D. Cook

Today I found the website of a statistician who works with Bayesian clinical trials (among other things). My company is doing a Bayesian clinical trial on our newest product launch. He also works at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where a friend of mine is getting her PhD in Virology.