Correlated binary measurements can occur in a variety of practical contexts and afford interesting statistical modeling challenges. In order to model the separate probabilities for each measurement we must somehow account ...

Adaptive designs are increasingly popular in clinical trials. This is because such designs have the potential to decrease patient exposure to treatments that are less efficacious or unsafe. The Bayesian approach to ...

The theory of generalized linear models provides a unifying class of statistical distributions that can be used to model both discrete and continuous events. In this dissertation we present a new conjugate hierarchical ...