TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Peter M. TI - Bayesian statistics: an introduction SN - 9781118332573 (pbk.) U1 - 000SA.161 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Chichester PB - John Wiley KW - Bayesian statistical decision theory KW - MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Preliminaries-- 2. Bayesian inference for the normal distribution-- 3. Some other common distributions-- 4. Hypothesis testing-- 5. Two-sample problems-- 6. Correlation, regression and the analysis of variance-- 7. Other topics-- 8. Hierarchical models-- 9. The Gibbs sampler and other numerical methods-- 10. Some approximate methods-- Appendix A Common statistical distributions-- Appendix B Tables-- Appendix C R programs-- Appendix D Further reading-- References-- Index N2 - "- Presents extensive examples throughout the book to complement the theory presented.Includes significant new material on recent techniques such as variational methods, importance sampling, approximate computation and reversible jump MCMC"-- ER -