Press Subjective and Objective Bayesian Statistics

Principles, Models, and Applications
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-31794-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 600 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

* Shorter, more concise chapters provide flexible coverage of the subject.
* Expanded coverage includes: uncertainty and randomness, prior distributions, predictivism, estimation, analysis of variance, and classification and imaging.
* Includes topics not covered in other books, such as the de Finetti Transform.
* Author S. James Press is the modern guru of Bayesian statistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Press, S. James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Preface to the First Edition.
A Bayesian Hall of Fame.
PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND PRINCIPLES.
1. Background.
2. A Bayesian Perspective on Probability.
3. The Likelihood Function.
4. Bayes' Theorem.
5. Prior Distributions.
PART II: NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BAYESIAN PARADIGM.
6. Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods (Siddhartha Chib).
7. Large Sample Posterior Distributions and Approximations.
PART III: BAYESIAN STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND DECISION MAKING.
8. Bayesian Estimation.
9. Bayesian Hypothesis Testing.
10. Predictivism.
11. Bayesian Decision Making.
PART IV: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS.
12. Bayesian Inference in the General Linear Model.
13. Model Averaging (Merlise Clyde).
14. Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling (Alan Zaslavsky).
15. Bayesian Factor Analysis.
16. Bayesian Inference in Classification and Discrimination.
Description of Appendices.
Appendix 1. Bayes, Thomas, (Hilary L. Seal).
Appendix 2. Thomas Bayes. A Bibliographical Note (George A.Barnard).
Appendix 3. Communication of Bayes' Essay to the PhilosophicalTransactions of the Royal Society of London (Richard Price).
Appendix 4. An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine ofChances (Reverend Thomas Bayes).
Appendix 5. Applications of Bayesian Statistical Science.
Appendix 6. Selecting the Bayesian Hall of Fame.
Appendix 7. Solutions to Selected Exercises.
Bibliography.
Subject Index.
Author Index.

Über Autor(innen)

S. JAMES PRESS, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the Departmentof Statistics at the University of California, Riverside. He is theauthor (with Judith M. Tanur) of The Subjectivity of Scientists andthe Bayesian Approach, also published by John Wiley & Sons,Inc., 2001.