Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based simulation approaches are by far the most common method in Bayesian inference to access the posterior distribution. Recently, motivated by successes in machine learning, variational inference (VI) has gained in interest in statistics since it promises a...

Clinical Named Entity Recognition (NER) within Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) has seen substantial research attention. Since much clinical information resides in unstructured text, NER technology is pivotal in extracting vital patient data from such sources. The ubiquity of EMRs has fueled...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is one of the most prevalent and fatal diseases influencing people on a larger that remains dormant until irreversible damage has been done to an individual's kidney. Progression of CKD is related to a variety of great complications, including increased incidence of...