Contact

Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
PH 211
Department of Physics
University at Albany
Albany NY 12222
USA

Phone: +1-518-442-4653
FAX: +1-518-442-5260
Email: kknuth@albany.edu

 

Required Reading
Text:   Data Analysis: A Bayesian Approach (2nd edition), D.S. Sivia and J. Skilling

Knuth K. H. 2003. Deriving laws from ordering relations. In: G.J. Erickson, Y. Zhai (eds.),
Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering,
Jackson Hole WY 2003, AIP Conference Proceedings 707, American Institute of Physics,
Melville NY, pp. 204-235.

Cox R.T. 1946. Probability, frequency, and reasonable expectation, Am. J. Physics, 14:1-13.

 

Additional Readings

Jaynes, E. T. 1986. Bayesian Methods: General Background. In Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Applied Statistics, J. H. Justice (ed.), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, p. 1

Bretthorst, G. L. 1988. Bayesian spectrum analysis and parameter estimation. Springer
Lecture Notes in Statistics, no. 48.

Jaynes, E. T. 1957. Information theory and statistical mechanics. Phys. Rev. 106, 620.

Jaynes, E. T. 1968. Prior Probabilities. IEEE Trans. Syst. Sci. Cyb. SSC-4, 227.

Cox R.T. 1961. The Algebra of Probable Inference, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore.

Caticha, A. 1998 Consistency, amplitudes and probabilities in quantum theory. Phys. Rev.
A57, 1572.

Dose, V. 2002 Bayes in five days. Reprint no. 83, Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma
Science.

Hanson, K. M. 1993. Introduction to Bayesian image analysis. In Medical Imaging: Image
Processing, (ed. M.H. Loew). Proc. SPIE 1898, 716–731.

Jaynes, E. T. 2003. Probability theory: the logic of science. Cambridge:Cambridge Univ.
Press.

Lindley D. V. 1956. On the measure of information provided by an experiment. Ann. Math.
Statist. 27, 986–1005.

Loredo T. 1990 From Laplace to supernova SN1987A: Bayesian inference in astrophysics.
In Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, (ed. P. Fougere), Dordrecht:Kluwer, 81–
142.

Skilling, J. 1998 Probabilistic data analysis: an introductory guide. J. Microscopy 190(1),
28–36.

Tribus, M 1961 Thermostatics and thermodynamics: an introduction to energy, information
and states of matter, with engineering applications, Princeton:Van Nostrand.