Scott M. Lynch is a professor in the departments of Sociology and Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. He is a demographer, statistician, and social epidemiologist and is currently the director of the Center for Population Health and Aging in Duke's Population Research Institute, where he is the associate director. His main substantive interests are in life course and cohort patterns in socioeconomic, racial, and regional dis-parities in health and mortality in the U.S. His main statistical interests are in the use of Bayesian statistics in social science and demographic research, especially in survival and life table methods. He has published more than 60 articles and chapters in these areas in top demography, gerontology, methodology, sociology and other journals, as well as two prior statistics texts on Bayesian methods and introductory statistics. He has taught undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses on a variety of statistical methods at Princeton University and Duke University, as well as a number of seminars on Bayesian statistics in academic, business, and other venues.
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1. Introduction 2. Probability Distributions and Review of Classical Analysis 3. The Bayesian Approach to Probability and Statistics 4. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampling Methods 5. Implementing the Bayesian Approach in Realistic Applications 6. Conclusion
A lucid exposition of the Bayesian approach to statistics, accessible to those new to this approach. -- David Greenberg The book's presentation of the logic of the Bayesian approach is one of the better illustrations that I've encountered. The level of mathematical precision used here is technical, but the layout makes it approachable. -- Matthew Phillips