Perspective

FDA Draft Guidance for the Use of Bayesian Methods in Clinical Trials

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.4178

March 23, 2026 at 11:05 AM EDT

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This Perspective discusses the draft guidance for industry that the US Food and Drug Administration released on the use of bayesian methods in testing therapeutics.

Corresponding Author: Andrew Gelman, PhD, Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 (ag389@columbia.edu).

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