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JSM 2002 Abstract #302032
Activity Number: 24
Type: Other
Date/Time: Sunday, August 11, 2002 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: ASA
Abstract - #302032
Title: When It Pays to Go Bayes
Author(s): Hal Stern*+
Affiliation(s): Iowa State University
Address: 121 Snedecor Hall, Ames, Iowa, 50011-1210,
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Abstract:

A check of the titles of Joint Statistics Meetings papers or statistics journal articles reveals many with the word Bayes. The increase in activity is due largely to modern computational approaches that allow application of Bayesian methods to modeling complex phenomena. Despite this, the training of most M.S. statisticians and many Ph.D. statisticians includes precious little information about the Bayesian approach. In this survey, talk the Bayesian approach is described and the types of problems for which it seems to be useful are discussed.

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