Peter Bauer, Ellen Karges, Gabriela Oprea and Arndt Rolfs

The scientific work of Peter Bauer.

This June, Peter Bauer – chief editor of Biometrical Journal from 2000–2003 and member of the editorial board since 1996 – celebrated his 65th birthday. Peter Bauer became known as one of the originators of the “adaptive designs”, a field of research that recently gained considerable popularity, not only among academia but likewise among regulatory bodies and the pharmaceutical industry. It is ...

Gabriela Wiosna-Sałyga

Reply to Bauer and Goff.

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the letter by Bauer and colleagues commenting on the need for cost-justification of new diagnostic tests in the field of infectious diseases [1], such as the recently US Food and Drug Administration–approved T2Candida panel for diagnosis of candidemia [2]. Indeed, the new alternatives for disease diagnosis [3] contribute to the exponential rise of healthcare ...

Ellen S

Rollover risk for passenger vehicles is studied using data from six states. The metric that is used is the number of rollovers per single vehicle accident. The analysis is performed with logistic regression and relevant factors such as weather and driver age are controlled for in the model. The use of categorical analysis permits the data to be used on the observation level, preventing the loss...

Arndt Riester & Torgrim Solstad

We present a formal game-theoretic model towards the explanation of implicatures based on the computation of iterated best responses: literal meaning of signals constitutes their default interpretation, and rational communicators decide about their communicative strategies by iteratively calculating the best response to this default strategy. We demonstrate by means of several examples how the ...