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Informationen zum Autor Anthony O'Hagan is the author of Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistic 2B, published by Wiley. Klappentext Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics and Kendall's Library of Statistics The development of modern statistical theory in the past fifty years is reflected in the history of the late Sir Maurice Kenfall's volumes The Advanced Theory of Statistics . The Advanced Theory began life as a two-volume work, and since its first appearance in 1943, has been an indispensable source for the core theory of classical statistics. With Bayesian Inference, the same high standard has been applied to this important and exciting new body of theory. Zusammenfassung Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics and Kendall's Library of Statistics The development of modern statistical theory in the past fifty years is reflected in the history of the late Sir Maurice Kenfall's volumes The Advanced Theory of Statistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to Second Edition xi Preface to First Edition xii Glossary of Abbreviations xiii 1 The Bayesian Method 1 2 Inference and Decisions 22 3 General Principles and Theory 61 4 Subjective Probability 94 5 Non-subjective Theories 116 6 Subjective Prior Distributions 135 7 Model Comparison 163 8 Robustness and Model Criticism 200 9 Computation 233 10 Markov Chain Monte Carlo 262 11 The Linear Model 305 12 Discrete Data Models 240 13 Nonparametric Models 374 14 Other Standard Models 402 15 Short Case Studies 423 References 441 Index of Examples in Text 471 Index 473