Bayesian Statistics 3 Proceedings of the Third Valencia International Meeting, June 1-5, 1987

by Bernardo, J. M.; DeGroot, M. H.; Lindley, D. V.; Smith, A. F. M.

• ISBN13: 9780198522201
• ISBN10: 0198522207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-03-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The field of statistics has undergone rapid and wide development during the past two decades, and the Bayesian approach to statistics has provided both a general framework and a creative stimulus for all aspects of this development. This volume describes the work presented at the Third Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, the main source of information and communication about the current state of knowledge and research in Bayesian statistics throughout the world. The research presented--which encompasses both invited papers and selected contributed papers-- has had a profound effect on the foundations of statistical inference and probability, statistical theory and methodology, and the applications of statistics in science, technology, medicine, business, law, and public policy. The contributors to this volume form a virtual Who's Who in the area of Bayesian statistics.

Table of Contents

Invited Papers (With Discussion)

De Finetti's Approach to Group Decision Making

The Future of Statistics, Teaching and Research

Gaining Weight: A Bayesian Approach

Ranges of Posterior Probabilities of Unimodal Priors with Specified Quantiles

A Bayesian Analysis of Simple Mixture Problems

Multiple Comparisons, Multiple Tests, and Data Dredging: A Bayesian Perspective

The Infinite Regress and its Conjugate Analysis

Recent Progress on de Finetti's Notions of Exchangeability

A Bayesian Model and a Graphical Elicitation Procedure for Multiple Comparisons

The Future of Statistics in Retrospect

Experiments in Bayesian Image Analysis

Software for Bayesian Analysis: Current Status and Additional Needs

The Data Trajectory

De Finetti's Theorem, Induction, and A(n) or Bayesian Nonparametric Predictive Inference

Bayesian Paleoethnobotany

Asympototics in Bayesian Computation

Stochastic Models of Incarceration Careers

Statistical Inference Concerning Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

Approximating Posterior Distributions

Modelling with Heavy Tails

On Being Imprecise at the Higher Levels of a Hierarchical Linear Model

Robust Bayesian Analysis in Hierarchical Models

Using the SIR Algorithm to Simulate Posterior Distributions

Robustness in Generalized Ridge Regression and Related Topics

Aspects of Numerical Integration and Summarisation

What Should Be Bayesian About Bayesian Software

To Weight or Not to Weight, That is the Question

Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials

Partial and Interaction Spline Models

Modelling Expert Opinion

A Bayesian Era

Contributed Papers

Bayesian Estimation of Poisson Means, Using a Hierarchical Log-Linear Model

Bayesian Analysis of a Pure Birth Process with Linear Birth Rate

Bayesian Regression Analysis Under Non-Normal Errors

On Kolmogorov's Partial Sufficiency

Invariance and Bayesian Predictive Analysis With An Application To Diallel Cross Design

On Differentiability Properties of Bayes Operators

Parametric Estimation With L Distance

Choosing a Quality Supplier, A Bayesian Approach

Global V Local Screening

Estimated Public Welfare Quality Control: Error Rates and Penalties

Iterative Procedures for Continuous Bayesian Designs

A Report on Continuity of Uncertainty Functions

A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of LD50 Experiments

Outliers and Influence: Evaluation by Posteriors of Parameters in the Linear Model,

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