Bayesian Statistics

An Introduction

Third Edition

PETER M. LEE

Formerly Provost of Wentworth College, University of York

(ISBN 978-0-470-68920-2)

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• Click here to see me when a bit younger

• Publisher’s web page on the book
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Illustration of Front Cover of Third Edition
• Price and Order Form for obtainiong the third edition from Amazon.co.uk
• Price and Order Form for obtainiong the third American edition from Amazon.com
• Home page of Wiley
  • Publisher’s Web page about this book
• Information on Google Book Search
• Contents of the book
• Exercises in the book: pdf file or LaTeX source file,
• Answers to Exercises: pdf file or LaTeX source file,
• Further Exercises (not in the book): pdf file or LaTeX source file,
• Known Misprints and Errors
• Tables in the book
• Computer programs relating to the book
  • Versions in C++ which can be run on Windows using http://www.cygwin.com/.
  • Versions in WinBUGS which is available free.
  • Information about installing OpenBUGS or WinBUGS on a Mac.
  • Information about RJMCMC in WinBUGS.
  • Versions in the R language which is available free. These versions should work equally well in S-plus.
    • Information about Bayesian Computation with R and the related packages
    • The LearnBayes package; manual for this.
    • The R2OpenBUGS package; manual for this.
    • The R2WinBUGS package; manual for this.
    • The boa package; manual for this.
    • The coda package; manual for this.
    • The abc package for Tools for Approximate Bayesian Computation in R; manual for this; see also http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1106/1106.2793v1.pdf
• Review of the third edition of the book in Significance 2 (2005), 185, pdf file or LaTeX source,
• Review of the third edition of the book in Journal of Educational and Behavioural Statistics 35 (3) (2010), 371-374. pdf file or LaTeX source,
• Review of the third edition of the book in Journal of Scientific Exploration 19 (1) (2005), 131-133, pdf or LaTeX source.
• Review of second edition of the book in Journal of the American Statistical Association 93 (1998), 1523-1524. pdf
• Miscellaneous Data Sets
• Numerical Recipes
• Send a message to the author
• For Thomas Bayes’ An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances and related matters, click as appropriate below:
  • The essay: pdf file or LaTeX source file
  • The “Billiard Table”
  • Figure illustrating Prop. 10
  • A letter from the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S. pdf file or LaTeX source file
  • Pictures of statisticians including a possible likeness of Bayes
  • The Reverend Thomas Bayes FRS: A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of his Birth, D R Bellhouse, Statistical Science 19 (2004), 3-43.

Peter M. Lee

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