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Introduction to bayesian statistics

By William M. Bolstad

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Interscience
Year
2004
ISBN
9780471270201, 0471270202
Open Library ID
OL7614372M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3793851 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
362\362
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

There is a strong upsurge in the use of Bayesian methods in applied statistical analysis, yet most introductory statistics texts only present frequentist methods. In Bayesian statistics the rules of probability are used to make inferences about the parameter. Prior information about the parameter and sample information from the data are combined using Bayes theorem. Bayesian statistics has many important advantages that students should learn about if they are going into fields where statistics will be used. This book uniquely covers the topics usually found in a typical introductory statistics book but from a Bayesian perspective.

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