Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 1st, 2004
Bayesian Field Theory.
Jorg C. LEMM, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7220-0. xix + 411 pp. $69.95.
Bayesian Field Theory presents the foundations of Bayesian statistical inference, particularly nonparametric and semiparametric inference, from a physicist's viewpoint. Chapters 1 and 2 give a fairly standard introduction to the Bayesian formulation of inference problems using language and notation that requires some acclimatization; however, the motivations and explanations are clear. In subsequent chapters, the divergence from a traditional treatment becomes mor...
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