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Addressing short-term recidivism presents a significant challenge within the criminal justice system, necessitating robust predictive models that can accurately identify risk factors and predict outcomes. This paper introduces application of Bayesian cure rate models to predict short-term recidivism using data from individuals released from Iowa prisons in 2018. The mixture cure...

Pediatric vaccine efficacy studies face enrollment challenges, often resulting in underpowered studies to confirm vaccine efficacy. To address the challenge, this paper proposes a novel Two-Tier Bayesian dynamic borrowing framework that selectively incorporates two heterogeneous sources of historical data of adult populations into pediatric studies. The method employs similarity...