Among statisticians the Bayesian approach continues to gain adherents and thisnew edition of Peter Lees classic introduction maintains the clarity ofexposition ... » 

Among statisticians the Bayesian approach continues to gain adherents and thisnew edition of Peter Lees classic introduction maintains the clarity ofexposition and use of examples for which the text is known and praised. Inaddition there is extended coverage of the MetropolisHastings algorithm aswell as an introduction to the use of BUGS as this is now the standardcomputational tool for such numerical work. Other alterations include newmaterial on generalized linear modeling and Bernardos theory of referencepoints. «