BayesianModelsforCategoricalData

TheuseofBayesianmethodsfortheanalysisofdatahasgrownsubstantiallyinareasasdiverseasappliedstatistics,psychology,economicsandmedicalscience.BayesianMethodsforCategoricalDatasetsouttodemystifymodernBayesianmethods,makingthemaccessibletostudentsandresearchersalike.Emphasizingtheuseofstatisticalcomputingandapplieddataanalysis,thisbookprovidesacomprehensiveintroductiontoBayesianmethodsofcategoricaloutcomes.*ReviewsrecentBayesianmethodologyforcategoricaloutcomes(binary,countandmultinomialdata).*Considersmissingdatamodelstechniquesandnon-standardmodels(ZIPandnegativebinomial).*Evaluatestimeseriesandspatio-temporalmodelsfordiscretedata.*Featuresdiscussionofunivariateandmultivariatetechniques.*ProvidesasetofdownloadableworkedexampleswithdocumentedWinBUGScode,availablefromanftpsite.Theauthor'sprevious2bestsellingtitlesprovidedacomprehensiveintroductiontothetheoryandapplicationofBayesianmodels.BayesianModelsforCategoricalDatacontinuestobuilduponthisfoundationbydevelopingtheirapplicationtocategorical,ordiscretedata-oneofthemostcommontypesofdataavailable.Theauthor'sclearandlogicalapproachmakesthebookaccessibletoawiderangeofstudentsandpractitioners,includingthosedealingwithcategoricaldatainmedicine,sociology,psychologyandepidemiology.