Bayesian Reading Group – Department of Statistics – University of Missouri – Columbia

Fall 2007

Aug 28 – Marco Ferreira

An informal overview of the book Multiscale modeling: A Bayesian perspective.

Sep 4 – Luyan Dai

Cooner, F.; Banerjee, S.; Carlin, B. P.; Sinha, D. (2007), Flexible Cure Rate Modeling Under Latent Activation Schemes,

JASA, pp. 560-572(13).

Sep 11 – Dongchu Sun

Bayesian hypotheses testing in one-way random effects model.

Sep 18 – Xiaoyan(Iris) Lin

David B. Dunson, Natesh Pillai and Ju-Hyun Park (2007), Bayesian density regression,

JRSS-B 69, pp.163–183.

Sep 25 – Chong He

Bayesian Small Area Estimation.

Oct 2 – Yu (Ryan) Yue

M.J. Bayarri and G. Garcia-Donato (2007), Extending conventional priors for testing general hypotheses in linear models,

Biometrika 94: 135-152.

Oct 9 – Jing Zhang

Smith, M.; Fahrmeir, L. (2007), Spatial Bayesian Variable Selection With Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,

JASA, pp. 417-431(15)

Oct 16 – Brunero Liseo

Bayesian Inference for Multivariate Skew Normal Distributions

Oct 23 – Paul Speckman

Bayesian selection of variables in linear regression by Gilles Celeaux, Jean-Michel Marin and Christian Robert.

Oct 30 – Fei Liu

Feng Liang, Rui Paulo, German Molina, Merlise A. Clyde and Jim O. Berger (2008), Mixtures of g-priors for Bayesian Variable Selection. To appear in JASA. link to pdf

Nov 6 – Sounak Chakraborty

Bayesian Transcendental and Semi-supervised Learning

Nov 13 – Chin-I Cheng

Hoff, Peter D. (2007), Model Averaging and Dimension Selection for the Singular Value Decomposition

JASA, pp. 674-685(12)

Nov 27 – Subharup Guha

Benchmark Estimation for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Samplers