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But all too often we Bayesians fall into a trap of assuming that external data needs to be used by transforming them into a prior distribution for the new study, hiding some uncertainties and disallowing covariate adjustment. Analyze external data jointly with new data: fharrell.com/post/hxcontrol

Apr 15, 2025, 12:12 PM

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