/tags/methodology/ Recent content in Methodology on GTownDS Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Stephen E Lane Tue, 12 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 /2015/05/12/bayesian-adaptive-designs/ Tue, 12 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 /2015/05/12/bayesian-adaptive-designs/ Research design methodology—especially clinical and other research involving human participants—that can make better use of already limited resources should definitely be considered. Adaptive designs, outcome-adaptive randomisation, dynamic treatment strategies and sequential multiple assignment randomisation trials are some of the designs that are gaining momentum. But are Bayesian Adaptive Designs (BADs) really no longer ‘a dream for statisticians only’? as suggested by Gajewski et al. (2015)? I’m not really sure this is true, and perhaps their opening line should be seen more as clickbait, as the authors really do not provide any solid evidence for this assertion.