Peter M. Lee

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Matters concerned with Bayesian Statistics

• Click here to see me when a bit younger or a recent photograph

• Information about the fourth edition of Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction

• Summary of the course (0530001) on Bayesian Statistics given in the academic year 2010/11.

• Further Exercises (not on the book) on Bayesian Statistics (pdf file)

• University of York examination papers on Bayesian Statistics.

• Bayesians Worldwide - Personal Web Pages

• Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. — 1701?–1761 and a possible portrait of him HTML, or pdf file, or LaTeX source

• The portrait discussed in the article above.

• For Thomas Bayes’ An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances and related matters, click as appropriate below:
  • The essay (LaTeX source file)
  • The essay (pdf file)
  • The “Billiard Table” (eps file)
  • The “Billiard Table” (gif file)
  • Figure illustrating Prop. 10 (eps file)
  • Figure illustrating Prop. 10 (gif file)
  • A letter from the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S. (pdf file)
  • A letter from the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S. (LaTeX source file)

• Book about Thomas Bayes by Andrew Dale (in JB Morrell library at SF 0.92 BAY/D)
  • Reference in Google Book Search
  • Publishers information
  • Review of above: pdf or LaTeX source

• Biography of Thomas Bayes by D R Bellhouse

• The Bayesian Songbook edited by Bradley P Carlin

• Encyclopedia article by José Bernardo.

• Bayes Theorem depicted in the offices of Autonomy in Cambridge

• Article from The Economist for 30th September 2000 pdf file or LaTeX source file
  • Diagram econfig.eps or
  • Diagram econfig.jpg

• Article from The Economist for 7th January 2006 pdf file or LaTeX source file
  • Diagram freqdists.eps or
  • Diagram freqdists.jpg

• Article from The Financial Times for 20th June 2003 pdf file or LaTeX source file

• Information about J Albert, Bayesian Computation with R, Springer-Verlag 2007 and the related packages
  • LearnBayes package; manual for this.
  • R2OpenBUGS package; manual for this.
  • R2WinBUGS package; manual for this.
  • The boa package; manual for this.
  • The coda package; manual for this.
  • Information about RJMCMC in WinBUGS.

• The abc package: Tools for Approximate Bayesian Computation in R; the manual for this package; see also http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1106/1106.2793v1.pdf

• Bats and software discussed in the book Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis by Jeff Harrison, Andy Pole and Mike West.

• CRAN Task View: Bayesian Inference

• Information about WinBugs and the programs in Bayesian Statistical Modelling by Peter Congdon

• Information about JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler)

• Cartoons

• Irreverent Bayes

• Bill Bryson on Bayes and the Royal Society

• Other matters concerned with Bayesian Statistics.

• A useful A5 reference card for R is available here as pdf or LaTeX source.

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Peter M. Lee

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3 July 2014