発展著しいベイズ統計分析の近年の成果を集約したハンドブック。基礎理論，方法論，実証応用および関連する計算手法について，一流執筆陣による全35章で立体的に解説。〔内容〕ベイズ統計の基礎（因果関係の推論，モデル選択，モデル診断ほか）／ノンパラメトリック手法／ベイズ統計における計算／時空間モデル／頑健分析・感度解析／バイオインフォマティクス・生物統計／カテゴリカルデータ解析／生存時間解析，ソフトウェア信頼性／小地域推定／ベイズ的思考法の教育

原著者と担当章

Albert, James H.：　 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, (Ch. 30).
Arellano-Valle, Reinaldo B.：　 Departamento de Estatistica, Facultad de Matematicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Chile, (Ch. 22).
Baladandayuthapani, Veerabhadran：　 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, (Ch. 24).
Bernardo, Jose M.：　 Departamento de Estadistica e I.O., Universitat de Valencia; Spain, (Ch. 2).
Bolfarine, Heleno：　 Departmento de Estatistica, IME, Universidad de Sao Paulo; Brasil, (Ch. 22).
Branco, M.D.：　 University of Sao Paulo; Brazil, (Ch. 23).
Brandwein, Ann Cohen：　 Baruch College, The City University of New York, (Ch. 8).
Branscum, Adam J.：　 Department of Statistics, University of California, (Ch. 9).
Carter, Chris：　 CSIRO; Australia, (Ch. 18).
Chen, Ming-Hui：　 Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, (Ch. 15).
Chib, Siddhartha：　 John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, (Ch. 29).
Choudhuri, Nidhan：　 Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, (Ch. 13).
Cripps, Edward：　 Department of Statistics, University of New South Wales; Australia, (Ch. 18).
Damien, Paul：　 McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, (Ch. 10).
Datta, Gauri Sankar：　 University of Georgia, (Ch. 3).
Dunson, David B.：　 Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, (Ch. 25).
Ferreira, Marco A.R.：　 Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brazil, (Ch. 19).
Gamerman, Dani：　 Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brazil, (Ch. 19).
Ghosal, Subhashis：　 Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, (Ch. 13).
Ghosh, Jayanta：　 Indian Statistical Institute; India, (Ch. 5).
Ghosh, Malay：　 Department of Statistics, University of Florida, (Ch. 27).
Ghosh, Sujit K.：　 Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, (Ch. 31).
Gustafson, Paul：　 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; Canada, (Ch. 26).
Hanson, Timothy E.：　 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, (Ch. 9).
He, Chong Z.：　 Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, (Ch. 32).
Hossain, Shahadut：　 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; Canada, (Ch. 26).
Iglesias, P.：　 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Chile, (Ch. 23).
Johnson, Timothy D.：　 University of Michigan, School of Public Health, (Ch. 28).
Johnson, Valen E.：　 Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, (Ch. 28).
Johnson, Wesley O.：　 Department of Statistics, University of California-Irvine, (Ch. 9).
Kohn, Robert：　 University of New South Wales; Australia, (Ch. 18).
Kuo, Lynn：　 Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, (Ch. 33).
Liseo, Brunero：　 Dip. studi geoeconomici, liguistici, statistici e storici per l’analisi regionale, Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”; Italia, (Ch. 7).
Lopes, Hedibert F.：　 Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, (Ch. 19).
Maiti, Tapabrata：　 Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, (Ch. 34).
Mallick, Bani：　 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, (Ch. 24).
Marin, Jean-Michel：　 Universite Paris Dauphine; France, (Ch. 16).
Martin, Jacinto：　 Department of Mathematics, U. Extremadura; Spain, (Ch. 21).
McCandless, Lawrence：　 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; Canada, (Ch. 26).
Mengersen, Kerrie：　 University of Newcastle, (Ch. 16).
Migon, Helio S.：　 Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Brazil, (Ch. 19).
Mira, Antonietta：　 Department of Economics, University of Insubria; Italy, (Ch. 14).
Mukherjee, Bhramar：　 Department of Statistics, University of Florida, (Ch. 27).
Muller, Peter：　 Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, (Ch. 17).
Pericchi, Luis Raul, School of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico; Puerto Rico, (Ch. 4).
Purkayastha, Sumitra：　 Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute; India, (Ch. 5).
Ray, Shubhankar：　 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, (Ch. 24).
Rios Insua, David：　 Decision Engineering Lab; Spain, (Ch. 21).
Robert, Christian P.：　 Universite Paris Dauphine; France, (Ch. 16).
Roy, Anindya：　 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, (Ch. 13).
Rubin, Donald B.：　 Department of Statistics, Harvard University, (Ch. 1).
Ruggeri, Fabrizio：　 CNR-IMATI; Italy, (Chs. 11, 21).
Samanta, Tapas：　 Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute; India, (Ch. 5).
Sinha, Debajyoti：　 Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Epidemiology, MUSC, (Ch. 31).
Sinha, Samiran：　 Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, (Ch. 27).
Sinharay, Sandip：　 Educational Testing Service, (Ch. 6).
Stangl, Dalene K.：　 Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, (Ch. 35).
Stern, Hal S.：　 Department of Statistics, University of California, (Ch. 6).
Strawderman,William E.：　 Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, (Ch. 8).
Sun, Dongchu：　 Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, (Ch. 32).
Sweeting, Trevor J.：　 University College London, (Ch. 3).
Vidakovic, Brani：　 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, (Ch. 11).
Vidal, I.：　 Universidad de Talca; Chile, (Ch. 23).
Walker, Stephen：　 Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, (Ch. 12).
Waller, Lance A.：　 Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, (Ch. 20).