Solutions to some exercises from Bayesian Data Analysis, second edition
by Gelman, Carlin, Stern, and Rubin
15 Mar 2004
These solutions are in progress. For more information on either the solutions or the book (published
by CRC), check the website http://www.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/book/
For each graph and some other computations, we include the code used to create it using the S
computer language. The S commands are set o from the text and appear in typewriter font.
If you nd any mistakes, please notify us by e-mailing to gelman@stat.columbia.edu. Thank
you very much.
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1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 Andrew Gelman, John Carlin, Hal Stern, and Rich Charnigo.
We also thank Jiangtao Du for help in preparing some of these solutions and Rob Creecy, Xin Feng,
and Yi Lu for nding mistakes.