Lyle D BroemelingBroemeling & Associates Inc, Medical Lake, WA, USAAbstract: Determining the accuracy of a medical test is quite difficult because accuracy is an elusive parameter to estimate. A common scenario is estimating the true and false positive fractions from different studies and...

Data analysis sometimes requires the relaxation of parametric assumptions in order to gain modeling flexibility and robustness against mis-specification of the probability model. In the Bayesian context, this is accomplished by placing a prior distribution on a function space, such as the space...