Introduction to Probability Simulation and Gibbs Sampling with R (Use R!)

Simulation has become a basic tool for the practice of applied probability and statistics. This is the first presentation of the Gibbs Sampler at an elementary level. The audience will be beginning graduate students in statistics and operations research.

Eric A. Suess is Chair and Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics and Bruce E. Trumbo is Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Mathematics, both at California State University, East Bay. Professor Suess is experienced in applications of Bayesian methods and Gibbs sampling to epidemiology. Professor Trumbo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and he is a recipient of the ASA Founders Award and the IMS Carver Medallion.