Bayesian Analysis in Statistics and Econometrics

A Computational Approaches.- 1. Laplace Approximation for Curved Surfaces.- 2. Designing a Bayesian Object-Oriented Computing Environment.- B Contingency Tables and Nonparametric Bayes.- 3. Bayesian Estimation in Multidimensional Contingency Tables.- 4. Bayesian Nonparametric Prediction and Statistical Inference.- 5. Homogeneity of Subpopulations for Two-by Two Contingency Tables.- C Hierarchical & Empirical Bayes Inference.- 6. A Hierarchical Bayes Approach to Small Area Estimation with Auxiliary Information.- 7. On Empirical Bayes Selection Rules for Negative Binomial Populations.- 8. Empirical Hierarchical Bayes Estimation.- 9. Simulation Comparison of Methods for Bayesian Contextual Classification of Remotely Sensed Data.- D Priors & Utilities.- 10. Reference Priors in a Variance Components Problem.- 11. An Elicitation Procedure Using Piecewise Conjugate Priors.- 12. Small Worlds and State Dependent Utilities.- E Reflections on Bayesian Paradigm.- 13. Learning Statistics from Counter Examples: Ancillary Statistics.- 14. The Horvitz-Thompson Estimate and Basu’s Circus Revisited.- 15. Comparison of Experiments for Selection and Censored Data Models.- 16. Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox and a Related Problem.- F Reliability & Dose Response Modeling.- 17. Bayesian Approach to Some Problems in Life Testing and Reliability Estimation.- 18. When to Stop Testing Software? Some Exact Results.- 19. Filtering, Smoothing, and Extrapolations in Dose-Response Experiments: Application to Data on Respiratory Tumors in Rats.- G Time Series Modeling, Forecasting and Robustness.- 20. Bayesian Perturbation Diagnostics and Robustness.- 21. Forecasting Similar Time Series with Bayesian Pooling Methods: Applications to Forecasting European Output Growth.- 22. Forecasting International GrowthRates Using Bayesian Shrinkage and Other Procedures.- H Contributed Papers.- 23. Estimation in the Linear Regression Model with Errors in Variables.- 24. Population Size Estimation with Truncated Data: A Survey.- 25. Bayesian Analysis of Co-Integrated Time Series.- 26. A Bayesian Approach to the Measurement of Poverty in India.- 27. Quantifying Prior Opinion in Length Biased Linear Mean Natural Exponential Family.- Author Index.- List of Participants.