Objective To characterise the use of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test in primary care in England. Design Population based open cohort study. Setting England. Participants 10 235 805 male ...

Despite what he observes as “excessive” levels of confidence, he noted that “history shows we still need a catalyst to come along and reset them back to more rational levels.” He added that, until one ...

Abstract: Task-based assessments of image quality constitute a rigorous, principled approach to the evaluation of imaging system performance. To conduct such assessments, it has been recognized that ...

In November 2024 the Secretary of State announced that NHS England would assess NHS trusts against a range of performance criteria and publish the results. This assessment allows NHS England to ...

Abstract: The estimation model-based alternate test strategy for analog integration circuits (ICs) offers an effective way to reduce test costs. However, as a data-driven method, the estimation ...

Recently there has been considerable progress on setting good approximate confidence intervals for a single parameter θ in a multi-parameter family. Here we use these frequentist results as a ...

Biometrika is primarily a journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications. From time to time, ...

This paper is concerned with the derivation of the Edgeworth expansion for the standardized and the studentized version of the kernel-based estimator of the expectile. Inverting the expansion allows ...

Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley doubled down that he believes Christopher Wray has failed his "fundamental duties" as FBI director in a blistering letter expressing he has "no confidence" in ...