Dr P. H. Scott and co-workers comment

Comment on Article by Polson and Scott

We congratulate the authors for a very interesting article. The key contribution of this paper, as we see it and as suggested in the title, is the introduction of latent parameters to carry out Bayesian analysis with support vector machines. The basic identities (4) and (6) are particularly useful in this regard, which enable one to overcome much of the complexities of a non smooth loss resulti...

Reviewer 2 : Scott Wearing Comment Response

Obesity and pronated foot type may increase the risk of chronic plantar heel pain: a matched Title: case-control study

Comment: Understanding OR, PS and DR

We congratulate Kang and Schafer (KS) on their excellent article comparing various estimators of a population mean in the presence of missing data, and thank the Editor for organizing the discussion. In this communication, we systematically examine the propensity score (PS) and the outcome regression (OR) approaches and doubly robust (DR) estimation, which are all discussed by KS. The aim is to...

Dr. H. M. Crake

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Dr. H. B. Kidd