Bayesian analysis of a mastitis control plan to investigate the influence of veterinary prior beliefs on clinical interpretationTools Green, Martin J. and Browne, William J. and Green, L.E. and Bradley, Andrew J. and Leach, K.A. and Breen, J.E. and Medley, Graham F. (2009) Bayesian analysis of a mastitis control plan to investigate the influence of veterinary prior beliefs on clinical interpretation. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 91 (2-4). pp. 209-217. ISSN 0167-5877
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.05.029
AbstractThe fundamental objective for health research is to determine whether changes should be made to clinical decisions. Decisions made by veterinary surgeons in the light of new research evidence are known to be influenced by their prior beliefs, especially their initial opinions about the plausibility of possible results. In this paper, clinical trial results for a bovine mastitis control plan were evaluated within a Bayesian context, to incorporate a community of prior distributions that represented a
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