In this chapter, we introduce the use of R in summarizing the posterior distributions for several single-parameter models. We begin by describing Bayesian inference for a variance for a normal population and inference for a Poisson mean when informative prior information is available. For both problems, summarization of the posterior distribution is facilitated by the use of R functions to compute and simulate distributions from the exponential family.
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Albert, J. (2009). Single-Parameter Models. In: Bayesian Computation with R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92298-0_3
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