Ah great, the new book on Bayesian workflow by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, Richard McElreath I knew they were working on is about to appear! With entries from several coauthors and half of the chapters on case studies. I have not (yet) looked at its contents in detail…
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Bayesian Workflow [cover]
Posted in Books, pictures, R, Statistics, University life with tags Aki Vehtari, Andrew Gelman, Bayesian inference, Bayesian statistics, Bayesian workflow, calibration checking, case studies, Chapman & Hall, computational complexity, cover, CRC Press, decision making, model building, model checking, not a book review, R, Richard McElreath, STAN, Statistical Modeling, statistical practice, workflow on April 25, 2026 by xi'anPaul Deheuvels (1948-2026)
Posted in Books, Mountains, University life with tags Bayesian Choice, Bayesian statistics, Book, bouldering, Bourg-la-Reine, climatosceptic, climbing accident, Club de l'Horloge, Economica, empirical process, Fontainebleau, functional estimation, Jussieu, Monsanto, obituary, Paris, Paris 6, Paul Deheuvels, Que sais-je?, The Bayesian Choice, thumb, transgenic corn, UMPC, Université Pierre et Marie Curie on February 5, 2026 by xi'an
I just learned that Paul Deheuvels died last week. He was head of the statistics department at Université Pierre & Marie Curie when I was a lecturer there (1987-1992). And a professor of statistics and probability there for his entire career, from 1974 to 2013. While we were working on completely different topics, and had divergent political views, we kept an amicable connection throughout the years, as we were living close enough to meet once in a while at the local farmers’ market and have a quick chat. When I was considering my options for pursuing a PhD, while writing a Master thesis on commutative Lie algebras with his father, René Deheuvels, he was one of the people who offered to supervise me (on a topic related with empirical processes, which were his forte). Later, he suggested I wrote a very short introduction to Bayesian statistics in the Que sais-je? collection (where he published three books) and, when my manuscript was found too theoretical, he proposed to publish an expanded version in the Economica collection, which ended up being the French version of The Bayesian Choice. I also remember a very kind email he sent me while I was recovering from my climbing accident, in 2013, as a fellow climber. (For a long while, he would drive to Fontainebleau once or twice a week for bouldering.) As alluded (to) above, Deheuvels’ political views were very conservative, with a proximity to the far-right Club de l’Horloge and a mix of vieille France traditionalism and libertarianism positions. For sure, he never was shy from embarking in controversies, from defending Allègre’s climato-scepticism to backing Séralini’s controversial study on the cancerogenic effects of Mosanto’s transgenic maize.
Bayes on the Beach 2026 (University of Wollongong, NSW, 9-11 Feb.)
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, R, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Australia, Bayes on the Beach, Bayesian computational methods, Bayesian statistics, beach, BoB, collaborative workshop, conference, Dharawal language, Grand Pacific Drive, Illawarra escarpment, New South Wales, Pacific Ocean, Queensland University of Technology, QUT, University of Wollongong on September 18, 2025 by xi'an
Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award 2025 [call]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Adriana Rosenbluth, Bayesian statistics, biostatistics, Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award, data science, David Blackwell, econometrics, environmental science, industrial statistics, ISBA, jISBA, junior researchers, machine learning on July 3, 2025 by xi'an
[Reposted:] The Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award by j-ISBA ia a recently established award for junior researchers in different areas of Bayesian statistics. The award aims at recognizing outstanding junior Bayesian researchers based on their overall contribution to the field and to the community. There will be six winners in total who will be invited to present their work in two special events of the Junior Bayes Beyond the Borders (JB³) webinar series and receive three years of free ISBA and j-ISBA membership.
ISBA proudly has a wide geographical diversity among its members. To encourage scientific exchange and strengthen research connections between geographies, three prizes will be awarded to researchers based in time zones UTC+0 to UTC+13 [e.g. Africa + Asia + Europe + Oceania] and three to those based in UTC-12 to UTC-1 [e.g. North America + South America].
We welcome nominations of junior researchers working in the broad spectrum of topics in Bayesian statistics, including but not limited to methods, theory, computation, machine learning, data science, biostatistics, econometrics, industrial statistics, environmental science, and software. The deadline is 15 July 2025.
integral priors for model comparison [2.0]
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags arXiv, Bayesian inference, Bayesian model choice, Bayesian statistics, ergodicity, imaginary training sample, integral priors, Juan Antonio Cano, Markov chain, MCMC, Murcia, nested models, noninformative priors, reference priors, Spain, Universidad de Murcia on May 2, 2025 by xi'an
