Some URLs for Bayesian analysis and related topics

Annotated list of books on Bayesian analysis and related topics: http://public.lanl.gov/kmh/bayes.pdf

Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods Workshops http://public.lanl.gov/kmh/maxent95/

Bayes Dayes 2000 at LANL - A minicourse on Bayesian analysis given by Volker Dose

Bayes Dayes 1999 at LANL - A tutorial and workshop on Bayesian analysis by Giullio d'Agostini

L. Lyons, CERN lecture, Practical statistics for particle physicists - Lect. 4 (Oct. 2006) CERN Training Lectures (both slides and video) excellent set of lectures on statistical methods relevant to physicists; videos add a lot to helping to understand the slides

G. D-Agostini, CERN lecture, Telling the truth with statistics (Feb. 2005) CERN Training Lectures (both slides and video)

Links for Bayesian analysis

• International Society for Bayesian Analysis www.bayesian.org
• Researchers in the field www.bayesian.org/bayespeople.html
• Institute of Statistics and Decisison Sciences - Duke University www.isds.duke.edu/
• Bayesian Inference for the Physical Sciences - Tom Lordeo (Cornell) astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/staff/loredo/bayes/
• Probability Theory As Extended Logic - Larry Bretthorst (Wash U) bayes.wustl.edu/
• Carlos Rodriguez server (SUNY - Albany) omega.albany.edu:8008/
• Cavendish Lab Inference Group - David McKay and colleagues (Cambridge) www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/is/
• SAMSI - Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, North Carolina www.samsi.info/

Markov Chain Monte Carlo

• Brief tutorial: http://public.lanl.gov/kmh/talks/maxent00b.abs.html
• BUGS: Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling; free MCMC software www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/
• Preprint service: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~steve/MCMC/