TY - BOOK AU - Brooks,Steve TI - Handbook of Markov chain Monte Carlo T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC handbooks of modern statistical methods SN - 9781420079418 PY - 2011/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press/Taylor & Francis KW - Markov processes KW - Monte Carlo method N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foundations, methodology, and algorithms; Introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo; Charles J. Geyer; A short history of MCMC; subjective recollections from incomplete data; Christian Robert and George Casella; Reversible jump MCMC; Yanan Fan and Scott A. Sisson; Optimal proposal distributions and adaptive MCMC; Jeffrey S. Rosenthal; MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics; Radford M. Neal; Inference from simulations and monitoring convergence; Andrew Gelman and Kenneth Shirley; Implementing MCMC; estimating with confidence; James M. Flegal and Galin L. Jones; Perfection within reach; exact MCMC sampling; Radu V. Craiu and Xiao-Li Meng; Spatial point processes; Mark Huber; The data augmentation algorithm; theory and methodology; James P. Hobert; Importance sampling, simulated tempering, and umbrella sampling; Charles J. Geyer; Likelihood-free MCMC; Scott A. Sisson and Yanan Fan --; Applications and case studies; MCMC in the analysis of genetic data on related individuals; Elizabeth Thompson; An MCMC-based analysis of a multilevel model for functional MRI data; Brian Caffo [and others]; Partially collapsed Gibbs sampling and path-adaptive metropolis-Hastings in high-energy astrophysics; David A. van Dyk and Taeyoung Park; Posterior exploration for computationally intensive forward models; David Higdon [and others]; Statistical ecology; Ruth King; Gaussian random field models for spatial data; Murali Haran; Modeling preference changes via a hidden Markov item response theory model; Jong Hee Park; Parallel Bayesian MCMC imputation for multiple distributed lag models; a case study in environmental epidemiology; Biran Caffo [and others]; MCMC for state-space models; Paul Fearnhead; MCMC in educational research; Roy Levy, Robert J. Mislevy, and John T. Behrens --; Applications of MCMC in fisheries science; Russell B. Millar; Model comparison and simulation for hierarchical models; analyzing rural-urban migration in Thailand; Filiz Garip and Bruce Western ER -