[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - June 2012 Issue

2012-06-01 Thread Heidi Sestrich
-- Heidi Sestrich Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University 412-268-2718 A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a paper on spatial quantile regression by Kristian Lum and Alan Gelfand

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - March 2012 Issue

2012-03-03 Thread Heidi Sestrich
-- Heidi Sestrich Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University 412-268-2718 A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a paper on theoretical aspects of Bayesian prediction by Alessio Sancetta

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - December 2011 Issue

2011-12-02 Thread Heidi Sestrich
; description of important scientific or policy application areas; case studies; and methods for experimental design, data collection, data sharing, or data mining. Evaluation of submissions is based on importance of content and effectiveness of communication. -- Heidi Sestrich Department of Statistics

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - March 2011 issue

2011-03-01 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a close look at support vector machines from a statistical perspective, with new techniques for computation, by Nicholas Polson and Steven Scott. Use of latent

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - December 2010 Issue

2010-12-24 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a case study on galaxy formation by Ian Vernon, Michael Goldstein, and Richard Bower. They use a Bayes linear approach to leverage a computer simulator to address

[UAI] This Friday is the deadline for applying for MCMSki III Young Investigator travel funding

2010-10-31 Thread heidi sestrich
Just a brief reminder that the deadline for applying for Young Investigator Travel Support to the MCMSki III conference in Park City, Utah this January is *this Friday, October 22, 2011, at 11:59 pm* Mountain Standard Time (6 hours behind Greenwich mean time). Applying is simple: you just

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - September 2010 Issue

2010-09-07 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a discussion paper on the practical Bayesian analysis of large datasets using mixture models, by Ioanna Manolopoulou, Cliburn Chan, and Mike West. Discussions by

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - June 2010 Issue

2010-06-12 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a review by Christian Robert of the recent book, The Search for Certainty by Krzysztof Burdzy, and discussions from Larry Wasserman, Andrew Gelman, and

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - March 2010 Issue

2010-03-04 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a discussion paper introducing a Bayesian approach for the analysis of small-angle neutron scattering experiments. This paper by Charles Hogg, Joseph Kadane, Jong

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - December 2009 Issue

2009-12-02 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This issue of BA features a discussion paper on a subject near and dear to the current editor-in-chief's heart: sports in general, and baseball in particular. Shane T. Jensen, Blakeley

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - September 2009 Issue

2009-09-02 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. In this back to school issue of Bayesian Analysis, our discussion paper concerns two subjects of longstanding interest to Bayesian modelers: variable selection, and the linking of two

[UAI] Call for submissions for the ISBA 2010 World Meeting

2009-08-01 Thread heidi sestrich
(apologies for cross-posting) The ISBA 2010 World Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Ninth Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, June 3-8 2010 in Benidorm, Spain. There will be tutorials on the first day, contributed talks in the late afternoons, and poster

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - December 2008 Issue

2008-12-01 Thread heidi sestrich
2008, Volume 03, Number 04, pp. 659--886 A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This quarter's issue features a discussion paper by Tobias Ryden comparing EM and MCMC methods in hidden Markov modeling, with discussion by

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - September 2008 Issue

2008-08-26 Thread heidi sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This month's issue features a discussion paper by well-known Bayesian researcher and textbook author Andrew Gelman, with discussions by Jay Kadane, Jose Bernardo, Stephen Senn, and

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis - March 2008 Issue

2008-03-04 Thread Heidi Sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. This month's issue features a discussion paper by Sanso, Forest, and Zantedeschi, with discussions by Higdon Gattiker and by Rougier, and rejoinder by the authors. This paper was one of

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis, Volume 2, Number 4

2007-12-08 Thread Heidi Sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu, as has the 2007 report of the editor-in-chief. The new issue (Volume 2 Number 4) includes the following articles: o Exact Bayesian Regression of Piecewise Constant

[UAI] Young Investigator Travel Support to MCMSki II in Bormio, Italy - UPDATE

2007-10-13 Thread Heidi Sestrich
UPDATE ON YOUNG INVESTIGATOR TRAVEL SUPPORT TO MCMSki II Bormio, Italy, January 7-11, 2008 We have been successful in obtaining grant support from both NSF and NIH to help subsidize the cost of attending MCMSki II for young investigators (persons within 5 years of receiving the PhD)

[UAI] Bayesian Analysis new issue on line

2007-09-06 Thread Heidi Sestrich
A new issue of the new electronic journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. Many of the articles in this issue are contributed papers associated with the Valencia / ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, which was held in Benidorm, Spain in early June,

[UAI] MCMSki II 2nd announcement / junior investigator travel awards

2007-09-06 Thread Heidi Sestrich
The third joint international meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) will be held in Bormio, Italy from Wednesday, January 9 to Friday, January 11, 2008. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte