Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 20
Preface to the First Edition......Page 22
1 Preliminaries......Page 26
2 Bayesian inference for the normal distribution......Page 61
3 Some other common distributions......Page 110
4 Hypothesis testing......Page 163
5 Two-sample problems......Page 187
6 Correlation, regression and the analysis of variance......Page 207
7 Other topics......Page 246
8 Hierarchical models......Page 278
9 The Gibbs sampler and other numerical methods......Page 306
10 Some approximate methods......Page 365
Appendix A Common statistical distributions......Page 398
Appendix B Tables......Page 424
Appendix C R programs......Page 455
Appendix D Further reading......Page 461
References......Page 464
Index......Page 480