Title Tools for statistical inference : methods for the exploration of posterior distributions and likelihood functions / Martin A. Tanner

Edition Third edition Published New York : Springer, 1996

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	519.542 Tan/Tfs 1996		AVAILABLE

Description viii, 207 pages Series Springer series in statistics Springer series in statistics. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Normal Approximations to Likelihoods and to Posteriors -- 3. Nonnormal Approximations to Likelihoods and Posteriors -- 4. The EM Algorithm -- 5. The Data Augmentation Algorithm -- 6. Markov Chain Monte Carlo: The Gibbs Sampler and the Metropolis Algorithm Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Bayesian statistical decision theory. Mathematical statistics. LC no. 96010784 ISBN 0387946888 hardcover alkaline paper

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