TY - BOOK AU - Damien,Paul AU - Dellaportas,Petros AU - Polson,Nicholas G. AU - Stephens,David A. TI - Bayesian theory and applications SN - 9780198739074 U1 - 000SA.161 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Bayesian statistical decision theory N1 - Dedicated to Sir Adrian Smith, F.R.S; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Observables and models : exchangeability and the inductive argument / Michael Goldstein -- 2. Exchangeability and its ramifications / A. Philip Dawid -- 3. Hierarchical modelling / Alan E. Gelfand, Souparno Ghosh -- 4. Bayesian hierarchical kernel machines for nonlinear regression and classification / Sounak Chakraborty, Bani K. Mallick, Malay Ghosh -- 5. Flexible Bayesian modelling for clustered categorical responses in developmental toxicology / Athanasios Kottas, Kassandra Fronczyk -- 6. Markov chain Monte Carlo methods / Siddhartha Chib -- 7. Advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo / Jim E. Griffin, David A. Stephens -- 8. Bayesian dynamic modelling / Mike West -- 9. Hierarchical modelling in time series : the factor analytic approach / Dani Gamerman, Esther Salazar -- 10. Dynamic and spatial modelling of block maxima extremes / Gabriel Huerta, Glenn A. Stark -- 11. Online Bayesian learning in dynamic models : an illustrative introduction to particle methods / Hedibert F. Lopes, Carlos M. Carvalho -- 12. Semi-supervised classification of texts using particle learning for probabilistic automata / Ana Paula Sales [and others]. 13. Bayesian nonparametrics / Stephen G. Walker -- 14. Geometric weight priors and their applications / Ramses H. Mena -- 15. Revisiting Bayesian curve fitting using multivariate normal mixtures / Stephen G. Walker, George Karabatsos -- 16. Applications of Bayesian smoothing splines / Sally Wood -- 17. Bayesian approaches to copula modelling / Michael Stanley Smith -- 18. Hypothesis testing and model uncertainty / M.J. Bayarri, J.O. Berger -- 19. Proper and non-informative conjugate priors for exponential family models / E. Gutierrez-Pena, M. Mendoza -- 20. Bayesian model specification : heuristics and examples / David Draper -- 21. Case studies in Bayesian screening for time-varying model structure : the partition problem / Zesong Liu, Jesse Windle, James G. Scott -- 22. Bayesian regression structure discovery / Hugh A. Chipman, Edward I. George, Robert E. McCulloch -- 23. Gibbs sampling for ordinary, robust and logistic regression with Laplace priors / Robert B. Gramacy -- 24. Baysian model averaging in the M-open framework / Merlise Clyde, Edwin S. Iversen -- 25. Asset allocation in finance : a Bayesian perspective / Eric Jacquier, Nicholas G. Polson -- 26. Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in corporate finance / Arthur Korteweg -- 27. Actuarial credibility theory and Baysian statistics : the story of a special evolution / Udi Makov -- 28. Bayesian models in biostatistics and medicine / Peter Muller -- 29. Subgroup analysis / Purushottam W. Laud, Siva Sivaganesan, Peter Muller -- 30. Surviving fully Bayesian nonparametric regression models / Timothy E. Hanson, Alejandro Jara -- 31. Inverse problems / Colin Fox, Heikki Haario, J. Andres Christen -- 32. Approximate marginalization over modelling errors and uncertainties in inverse problems / Jari Kaipio, Ville Kolehmainen -- 33. Bayesian reconstruction of particle beam phase space / C. Nakhleh [and others] N2 - This volume guides the reader along a statistical journey that begins with the basic structure of Bayesian theory, and then provides details on most of the past and present advances in this field ER -