Handbooks [not a book review]

handbook of mixture analysis [review]

“In my opinion, the editors have done an excellent job when selecting the contents of the handbook and putting the different chapters together. For instance, this can be appreciated by the fact that, despite the large number of authors and contributions, all chapters have kept the same notation. Furthermore, in addition to a sound description […]

Handbook of Mixture Analysis [cover]

On the occasion of my talk at JSM2018, CRC Press sent me the cover of our incoming handbook on mixture analysis, courtesy of Rob Calver who managed to get it to me on very short notice! We are about ready to send the manuscript to CRC Press and hopefully the volume will get published pretty […]

Handbook of Markov chain Monte Carlo

At JSM, John Kimmel gave me a copy of the Handbook of Markov chain Monte Carlo, as I had not (yet?!) received it. This handbook is edited by Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin Jones, and Xiao-Li Meng, all first-class jedis of the MCMC galaxy. I had not had a chance to get a look at […]

Two more handbook chapters

As mentioned in my earlier post, I had to write a revised edition to my chapter Bayesian Computational Methods in the Handbook of Computational Statistics (second edition), edited by J. Gentle, W. Härdle and Y. Mori. And in parallel I was asked for a second chapter in a handbook on risk analysis, Bayesian methods and […]