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Peter D. Hoff
A First Course in Bayesian
Statistical Methods
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Peter D. Hoff
Department of Statistics
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-4322
USA
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ISSN 1431-875X
ISBN 978-0-387-92299-7 e-ISBN 978-0-387-92407-6
DOI -0-387-92407-6
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Preface
This book originated from a set of lecture notes for a one-quarter graduate-
level course taught at the University of Washington. The purpose of the course
is to familiarize the students with the basic concepts of Bayesian theory and
to quickly get them performing their own data analyses using -
putational tools. The audience for this course includes non-statistics graduate
students who did well in their department’s graduate-level introductory statis-
tics courses and who also have an interest in statistics. Additionally, first- and
second-year statistics graduate students have found this c