The key operation in Bayesian inference is to compute high-dimensional integrals. An old
approximate technique is the Laplace method or approximation, which dates back to Pierre …

Although the statistical tools most often used by researchers in the field of psychology over
the last 25 years are based on frequentist statistics, it is often claimed that the alternative …

Doing Meta-Analysis with R: A Hands-On Guide serves as an accessible introduction on
how meta-analyses can be conducted in R. Essential steps for meta-analysis are covered …

Thermal-stress events associated with climate change cause coral bleaching and mortality
that threatens coral reefs globally. Yet coral bleaching patterns vary spatially and temporally …

Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Uncertainty remains regarding the role of anthropogenic climate change in declining insect
populations, partly because our understanding of biotic response to climate is often …

Abstract The Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) project relies on country experts who code a
host of ordinal variables, providing subjective ratings of latent-that is, not directly observable …

Background People who are incarcerated are at high risk of developing tuberculosis. We
aimed to estimate the annual global, regional, and national incidence of tuberculosis among …

Agriculture today places great strains on biodiversity, soils, water and the atmosphere, and
these strains will be exacerbated if current trends in population growth, meat and energy …

Background In young children, rates of lower respiratory infections (LRI) and invasive
pneumococcal disease (IPD) have been associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) …