Bayesian Data Analysis for Animal Scientists: The Basics
Author:   Agustin Blasco
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
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Pages:   275
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
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Author:   Agustin Blasco
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   6.215kg
ISBN:  

9783319542737


ISBN 10:   3319542737
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword.- Notation.- 1. Do we understand classical statistics?.- 2. The Bayesian choice.- 3. Posterior distributions.- 4. MCMC.- 5. The “baby” model.- 6. The linear model. I. The “fixed” effects model.- 7. The linear model. II. The “mixed” model.- 8. A scope of the possibilities of Bayesian inference + MCMC.- 9. Prior information.- 10. Model choice.- Appendix.- References.

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Agustin Blasco Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics Visiting scientist at ABRO (Edinburgh), INRA (Jouy en Josas) and FAO (Rome). He was President of the World Rabbit Science Association and editor in chief of the journal World Rabbit Science. His career has focused on the genetics of litter size components and genetics of meat quality in rabbits and pigs. He has published more than one hundred papers in international journals. Invited speaker several times at the European Association for Animal Production and at the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production among others. Chapman Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught courses on Bayesian Inference at the universities of Valencia (Spain), Edinburgh (UK), Wisconsin (USA), Padua (Italy), Sao Paulo, Lavras (Brazil), Nacional (Uruguay), Lomas (Argentina) and at INRA in Toulouse (France).

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