Chapter 2: " Aetiology and incidence of maxillofacial trauma in Amsterdam: A retrospective analysis of 579 patients. " All patients treated in the VU University Medical Center (Amsterdam), for maxillofacial trauma, were identified retrospectively (period 2000-2010). A total of 579 patients were identified (408 men and 171 women), with a mean age of 35.9 ± 16.3 years. Mandibular and zygomatic bo...

A Bayesian ensemble can be used to discover and learn about the regression relationship between a variable of interest y, and p potential predictor variables x1, . . . , xp. The basic idea is to model the conditional distribution of y given x by a sum of random basis elements plus a flexible noise distribution. In my Loeb Research Lecture, I will focus on a Bayesian ensemble approach called BAR...

For the discovery of regression relationships between Y and a large set p potential predictors x1,…,xp, flexible nonparametric nature BART (Bayesian Additive Regression Trees) allows for much richer possibilities than restrictive parametric approaches. However, subject matter considerations sometimes warrant minimal assumption monotonicity in at least some predictors. such contexts, we introduc...