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The BUGS Book - A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis (Hardcover)
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The BUGS Book - A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis (Hardcover)
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
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Bayesian statistical methods have become widely used for data
analysis and modelling in recent years, and the BUGS software has
become the most popular software for Bayesian analysis worldwide.
Authored by the team that originally developed this software, The
BUGS Book provides a practical introduction to this program and its
use. The text presents complete coverage of all the functionalities
of BUGS, including prediction, missing data, model criticism, and
prior sensitivity. It also features a large number of worked
examples and a wide range of applications from various disciplines.
The book introduces regression models, techniques for criticism and
comparison, and a wide range of modelling issues before going into
the vital area of hierarchical models, one of the most common
applications of Bayesian methods. It deals with essentials of
modelling without getting bogged down in complexity. The book
emphasises model criticism, model comparison, sensitivity analysis
to alternative priors, and thoughtful choice of prior distributions
all those aspects of the "art" of modelling that are easily
overlooked in more theoretical expositions. More pragmatic than
ideological, the authors systematically work through the large
range of "tricks" that reveal the real power of the BUGS software,
for example, dealing with missing data, censoring, grouped data,
prediction, ranking, parameter constraints, and so on. Many of the
examples are biostatistical, but they do not require domain
knowledge and are generalisable to a wide range of other
application areas. Full code and data for examples, exercises, and
some solutions can be found on the book's website.
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