OBJECTIVES This paper systematically analyzed the performance of magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion to diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) with fractional flow reserve (FFR) as the reference standard. BACKGROUND Myocardial MR perfusion has passed the stage of a research technique and has demonstrated the ability to detect functional or ischemic stenosis of coronary arteries. However, the ev...

In risk analysis based on Bayesian framework, premium calculation requires specification of a prior distribution for the risk parameter in the heterogeneous portfolio. When the prior knowledge is vague, the E-Bayesian and robust Bayesian analysis can be used to handle the uncertainty in specifying the prior distribution by considering a class of priors instead of a single prior. In th...

In this paper, the well-known proportional hazards model which includes several well-known lifetime distributions such as exponential,Pareto, Lomax, Burr type XII, and so on is considered. With both Bayesian and non-Bayesian approaches , we consider the estimation of parameters of interest based on progressively Type-II right censored samples. The Bayes estimates are obtained based on symmetric...

in a finite stationary markov chain, transition probabilities may depend on some explanatoryvariables. a similar problem has been considered here. the corresponding posteriors are derived andinferences are done using these posteriors. finally, the procedure is illustrated with a real example.