Brian J. Reich, Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, applies Bayesian statistical methods in a variety of fields including environmental epidemiology, engineering, weather and climate. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics and recipient of the LeRoy & Elva Martin Teaching Award at NC State University.

Sujit K. Ghosh, Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, has worked in advanced research fields such as Bayesian inference, spatial statistics, survival analysis and shape-constrained inference, addressing complex inferential challenges in biomedical and environmental sciences, econometrics, and engineering. At NC State, he has been honored with the D.D. Mason Faculty Award and the Cavell Brownie Mentoring Award, reflecting his excellence in research, mentoring and teaching. His leadership includes impactful service as Program Director at NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences, Deputy Director at SAMSI and President of the IISA.

Preface 1 Basics of Bayesian inference 2 From prior information to posterior inference 3 Computational approaches 4 Linear models 5 Hypothesis testing 6 Model selection and diagnostics 7 Case studies using hierarchical modeling 8 Machine learning 9 Statistical properties of Bayesian methods Appendices Bibliography Index