Bayesian Statistics 7 Proceedings of the Seventh Valencia International Meeting

by Bernardo, José M.; Bayarri, M. J.; Dawid, A. Philip; Berger, James O.; Heckerman, D.; Smith, A. F. M.; West, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780198526155
• ISBN10: 0198526156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Valencia International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics, held every four years, provide the main forum for researchers in the area of Bayesian Statistics to come together to present and discuss frontier developments in the field. The resulting Proceedings provide a definitive, up-to-dateoverview encompassing a wide range of theoretical and applied research. This seventh Proceedings containing 23 invited articles and 31 contributed papers is no exception, and will be an indispensable reference to all statisticians.

Table of Contents

I. INVITED PAPERS (with discussion)
Bayesian Inference for Elliptical Linear Models: Conjugate Analysis and Model Comparison	3	(22)
Arellano-Valle R. B.
Iglesias, P. L.
Vidal I.
Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Applications in Information Retrieval	25	(20)
Blei, D. M.
Jordan, M. I.
Ng, A. Y.
Hierarchical Multivariate CAR Models for Spatio-Temporally Correlated Survival Data	45	(20)
Carlin, B. P.
Banerjee, S.
On Inferring Effects of Binary Treatments with Unobserved Confounders	65	(20)
Chib, S.
Bayesian Treed Generalized Linear Models	85	(20)
Chipman, H. A.
George, E. I.
McCulloch, R. E.
Bayesian Harmonic Models for Musical Signal Analysis	105	(20)
Davy, M.
Godsill, S. J.
Assessing the Risk of Disclosure of Confidential Categorical Data	125	(20)
Dobra, A.
Fienberg, S. E.
Trottini, M.
Bayesian and Frequentist Multiple Testing	145	(18)
Genovese, C.
Wasserman, L.
Nonparametric Inference for Mixed Poisson Processes	163	(18)
Gutierrez-Pena, E.
Nieto-Barajas, L.E.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo-based Approaches for Inference in Computationally Intensive Inverse Problems	181	(18)
Higdon, D.
Lee, H.
Holloman, C.
A Hierarchical Model for Estimating the Reliability of Complex Systems	199	(16)
Johnson, V. E.
Graves, T. L.
Hamada, M. S.
Shane Reese, C.
Rasch Models with Exchangeable Rows and Columns	215	(18)
Lauritzen, S. L.
Discrimination Based on an Odds Ratio Parameterization	233	(16)
van der Linde, A.
Osius, G.
Bayesian Clustering with Variable and Transformation Selections	249	(28)
Liu, J. S.
Zhang, J. L.
Palumbo, M. J.
Lawrence, C. E.
IID Sampling using Self-Avoiding Population Monte Carlo: The Pinball Sampler	277	(16)
Mengersen, K. L.
Robert, C. P.
A Statistical Approach to Modelling Genomic Aberrations in Cancer Cells	293	(14)
Newton, M. A.
Yang H.
Gorman, P.
Tomlinson, I.
Roylance, R.
Non-Centered Parameterizations for Hierarchical Models and Data Augmentation	307	(20)
Papaspiliopoulos, O.
Roberts, G. O.
Skold, M.
Identifying Mixtures of Regression Equations by the SAR procedure	327	(22)
Pena, D.
Rodriguez, J.
Tiao, G. C.
Global Gambling	349	(20)
Quintana, J. M.
Lourdes V.
Aguilar, O.
Liu, J.
New Tools for Consistency in Bayesian Nonparametrics	369	(16)
Salinetti, G.
Measures of Incoherence: How not to Gamble if you Must	385	(18)
Schervish, M. J.
Seidenfeld T.
Kadane, J. B.
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems	403	(16)
Wolpert, R. L.
Ickstadt, K.
Hansen, M. B.
A Novel Framework for Tracking Groups of Objects	419	(24)
Zohar, R.
Geiger, D.
II. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Bayesian Modelling of Hospital Bed Occupancy Times using a Mixed Generalized Erlang Distribution	443	(10)
Ausin, M. C.
Lillo, R. E.
Ruggeri, F.
Wiper, M. P.
The Variational Bayesian EM Algorithm for Incomplete Data: With Application to Scoring Graphical Model Structures	453	(12)
Beal, M. J.
Ghahramani, Z.
Intrinsic Estimation	465	(12)
Bernardo, J. M.
Juarez, M. A.
Robust Analysis of Salamander Data, Generalized Linear Model with Random Effects	477	(8)
Choy, S. T. B.
Chan, J. S. K.
Yam, C. H. K.
A Relationship Between Randomized Manipulation and Parameter Independence	485	(8)
Daneshkhah, A.
Smith, J. Q.
Markov Random Field Extensions using State Space Models	493	(8)
Dethlefsen, C.
Bayesian Estimation of the Grade of Membership Model	501	(10)
Erosheva, E. A.
A Variant Version of the Polya-Eggenberger Urn Model	511	(8)
Esteves, L. G.
Wechsler, S.
Iglesias, P. L.
Pereira, A. L.
Multi-scale Modelling of I-D Permeability Fields	519	(10)
Ferreira, M. A. R.
West, M.
Lee, H. K. H.
Higdon, D.
Bi, Z.
Direct Bayes for Interest Parameters	529	(6)
Fraser, D. A. S.
Reid, N.
Wong, A.
Yi, G. Y.
Dynamic Lattice-Markov Spatio-Temporal Models for Environmental Data	535	(8)
Garside, L. M.
Wilkinson, D. J.
Lymphoscintigraphy of Upper Limbs: A Bayesian Framework	543	(10)
Gebousky, P.
Karny, M.
Quinn, A.
Bayesian Analysis of Matched Pairs in the Presence of Covariates	553	(12)
Giron, F. J.
Martinez, M. L.
Moreno, E.
Torres, F.
State Space Models for Density Dependence in Population Ecology	565	(12)
Jamieson, L. E.
Brooks, S. P.
A Marginal Ergodic Theorem	577	(10)
Lavine, M.
Exact Bayesian Inference for a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Application to Robotic Assembly	587	(10)
Lefebvre, T.
Gadeyne, K.
Bruyninckx, H.
De Schutter, J.
Compatible Priors for Causal Bayesian Networks	597	(10)
Leucari, V.
Consonni, G.
On the Application of Logistic Regression Modelling in Microarray Studies	607	(12)
Mertens, B. J. A.
Density Modelling and Clustering Using Dirichlet Diffusion Trees	619	(12)
Neal, R. M.
Outlier Robust Estimation of a Finite Population Total	631	(10)
Pettit, L. I.
Sugden, R. A.
Bayesian Inference for Derivative Prices	641	(10)
Polson, N. G.
Stroud, J. R.
Gaussian Processes to Speed up Hybrid Monte Carlo for Expensive Bayesian Integrals	651	(10)
Rasmussen, C. E.
Objective Bayesian Comparison of Laplace Samples from Geophysical Data	661	(10)
Rodriguez, A.
Alvarez, G.
Sanso, B.
The Markov Modulated Poisson Process and Markov Poisson Cascade with Applications to Web Traffic Modelling	671	(10)
Scott, S. L.
Smyth, P.
Modelling Bivariate Extremes in a Region	681	(10)
Smith, E. L.
Walshaw, D.
Bayesian Object Matching with Hierarchical Priors and Markov Chain Monte Carlo	691	(10)
Tamminen, T.
Lampinen, J.
Expected Utility Estimation via Cross-Validation	701	(10)
Vehtari, A.
Lampinen, J.
A Method for Sequential Optimization in Bayesian Analysis	711	(10)
Virto, M.
Martin, J.
Rios Insua, D.
Moreno Diaz, A.
Modelling Gene Expression Data over Time: Curve Clustering with Informative Prior Distributions	721	(12)
Wakefield, J. C.
Zhou, C.
Self, S. G.
Bayesian Factor Regression Models in the ``Large p. Small n'' Paradigm	733	(10)
West, M.
A Bayesian Analysis of Smooth Transitions in Trend	743
Zheng, P.
Marriott, J. M.