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The Bayesian Choice Christian Robert

The Bayesian Choice By Christian Robert

The Bayesian Choice by Christian Robert


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This graduate-level textbook, now in paperback, presents an introduction to Bayesian statistics and decision theory. Its scope covers both the basic ideas of statistical theory and some modern and advanced topics of Bayesian statistics.

The Bayesian Choice Summary

The Bayesian Choice: From Decision-Theoretic Foundations to Computational Implementation by Christian Robert

This is an introduction to Bayesian statistics and decision theory, including advanced topics such as Monte Carlo methods. This new edition contains several revised chapters and a new chapter on model choice.

The Bayesian Choice Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

SHORT BOOK REVIEWS

"The text reads fluently and beautifully throughout, with light, good-humoured touches that warm the reader without being intrusive. There are many examples and exercises, some of which draw out the essence of work of other authors. Each chapter ends with a "Notes" section containing further brief descriptions of research papers. A reference section lists about eight hundred and sixty references. Each chapter begins with a quotation from "The Wheel of Time" a sequence of books by Robert Jordan. Only a few displays and equations have numbers attached. This is an extremely fine, exceptional text of the highest quality."
ISI Short Book Reviews, April 2002

JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY

"This book is an excellent introduction to Bayesian statistics and decision making. The author does an outstanding job in explicating the Bayesian research program and in discussing how Bayesian statistics differs form fiducial inference and from the Newman-Pearson likelihood approachThe book would be well suited for a graduate-level course in a mathematical statistics department. There are numerous examples and exercises to enhance a deeper understanding of the material. The writing is authoritative, comprehensive, and scholarly."

"This book is a publication in the well-known Springer Series in statistics published in 2001. It is a textbook that presents an introduction to Bayesian statistics and decision theory for graduate level course . The textbook contains a wealth of references to the literature; therefore it can also be recommended as an important reference book for statistical researchers. for those who want to make a Bayesian choice, I recommend that you make your choice by getting hold of Roberts book, The Bayesian Choice." (Jan du Plessis, Newsletter of the South African Statistical Association, June, 2003)

"This is the second edition of theauthors graduate level textbook The Bayesian choice: a decision-theoretic motivation. The present book is a revised edition. It includes important advances that have taken place since then. Different from the previous edition is the decreased emphasis on decision-theoretic principles. Nevertheless, the connection between Bayesian Statistics and Decision Theory is developed. Moreover, the author emphasizes the increasing importance of computational techniques." (Krzysztof Piasecki, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 980, 2002)

Table of Contents

Decision-Theoretic Foundations.- From Prior Information to Prior Distributions.- Bayesian Point Estimation.- Tests and Confidence Regions.- Bayesian Calculations.- Model Choice.- Admissibility and Complete Classes.- Invariance, Haar Measures, and Equivariant Estimators.- Hierarchical and Empirical Bayes Extensions.- A Defense of the Bayesian Choice.

Additional information

NPB9780387952314
9780387952314
0387952314
The Bayesian Choice: From Decision-Theoretic Foundations to Computational Implementation by Christian Robert
New
Hardback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2001-05-25
606
N/A
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