TY - BOOK AU - Linden,Wolfgang Von Der AU - Dose,Volker AU - Toussaint,Udo Von TI - Bayesian probability theory: applications in the physical sciences SN - 9781107035904 (hardback) U1 - 000SA.161 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge PB - CUP KW - Probabilities KW - Bayesian statistical decision theory N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 620-630) and index; 1. The meaning of probability -- 2. Basic definitions for frequentist statistics and bayesian inference-- 3. Bayesian inference -- 4. Combinatrics -- 5. Random walks -- 6. Limit theorems -- 7. Continuous distributions -- 8. The central limit theorem -- 9. Poisson processes and waiting times -- 10. Prior probabilities by transformation invariance -- 11. Testable information and maximum entropy -- 12. Qualified maximum entropy -- 13. Global smoothness -- Part III Parameter estimation-- 14. Bayesian parameter estimation -- 15. Frequentist parameter estimation -- 16. The Cramer-Rao inequality -- Part IV Testing hypotheses-- 17. The Bayesian way -- 18. The frequentist way -- 19. Sampling distributions -- 20. Comparison of Bayesian vs frequentist hypothesis tests -- Part V Eral-world applications-- 21. Regression -- 22. Consistent inference on Inconsistent data -- 23. Unrecognized signal contributions -- 24. Change point problems -- 25. Function estimation -- 26. Integral equations -- 27. Model selection -- 28. Bayesian experimental design -- Part VI Probabilistic numerical techniques-- 29. Numerical integration -- 30. Monte Carlo methods -- 31. Nested sampling-- Appendix-- References-- Index N2 - Covering all aspects of probability theory, statistics and data analysis from a Bayesian perspective for graduate students and researchers ER -