It then turns to the definitions of the likelihood function, prior distributions, and posterior distributions ... which has become the most widely used environment for Bayesian statistics. 'Edward ...

Bayesian Inference: Bayes theorem, prior, posterior and predictive distributions, conjugate models (Normal-Normal, Poisson-Gamma, Beta-Binomial), Bayesian point estimation, credible intervals and ...

In contrast to the long-standing frequentist approach to statistics, the Bayesian approach makes explicit use of prior information and is based ... provides a detailed review of methods for posterior ...