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A new issue of the new electronic
journal BAYESIAN ANALYSIS has been
published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu.

This month's issue features a discussion
paper by well-known Bayesian
researcher and textbook author Andrew
Gelman, with discussions by Jay
Kadane, Jose Bernardo, Stephen Senn, and
Larry Wasserman. The paper
is quite different from most previous BA
discussion papers, as is
explained in a brief introductory note
by the editor-in-chief.

The Sept 2008 issue includes the
following articles:

• Editor-in-Chief's note, by Bradley P. Carlin, pp. 443 - 444, posted online 2008-08-20, DOI:10.1214/08-BA317

• Objections to Bayesian statistics, by Andrew Gelman, pp. 445 - 450, posted online 2008-08-19, DOI:10.1214/08-BA318
• Comment on Article by Gelman, by Jose M. Bernardo, pp. 451
• 454, posted online 2008-08-19, DOI:10.1214/08-BA318A
• Comment on Article by Gelman, by Joseph B. Kadane, pp. 455
• 458, posted online 2008-08-19, DOI:10.1214/08-BA318B
• Comment on Article by Gelman, by Stephen Senn, pp. 459 - 462, posted online 2008-08-19, DOI:10.1214/08-BA318C
• Comment on Article by Gelman, by Larry Wasserman, pp. 463
• 466, posted online 2008-08-19, DOI:10.1214/08-BA318D
• Rejoinder, by Andrew Gelman, pp. 467 - 478, posted online 2008-08-19, DOI:10.1214/08-BA318REJ

• Model-based Analysis of Concept Maps, by Sam K. Hui , Yanliu Huang and Edward I. George, pp. 479 - 512, posted online 2008-05-13, DOI:10.1214/08-BA319

• Bayesian Inference for Shape Mixtures of Skewed Distributions, with Application to Regression Analysis, by Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, Luis M. Castro, Marc G. Genton and Hector W. Gomez, pp. 513 - 540, posted online 2008-08-05, DOI:10.1214/08-BA320

• Bayesian methods for categorical data under informative censoring, by Thomas J. Jiang and James M. Dickey, pp. 541 - 554, posted online 2008-08-11, DOI:10.1214/08-BA321

• Application of Girsanov Theorem to Particle Filtering of Discretely Observed Continuous-Time Non-Linear Systems, by Simo Sarkka and Tommi Sottinen, pp. 555 - 584, posted online 2008-08-11, DOI:10.1214/08-BA322

• Bayesian Variable Selection and Computation for Generalized Linear Models with Conjugate Priors, by Ming-Hui Chen , Lan Huang , Joseph G. Ibrahim and Sungduk Kim, pp. 585 - 614, posted online 2008-08-13, DOI:10.1214/08-BA323

• Exact distribution theory for belief net responses, by Peter M. Hooper, pp. 615 - 624, posted online 2008-08-18, DOI:10.1214/08-BA324

• Combining multiple maps of line features to infer true position, by Jarrett J. Barber and Steven D. Prager, pp. 625 - 658, posted online 2008-08-18, DOI:10.1214/08-BA325

The journal is sponsored by the
International Society for Bayesian
Analysis (ISBA). Its editors are Phil
Dawid, David Dunson, Andy
Grieve, David Heckerman, Michael Jordan,
Antonietta Mira, Kerrie
Mengersen, and Fabrizio Ruggeri. Brad
Carlin is serving as
Editor-in-Chief, Herbie Lee is Managing
Editor, Angelika van der Linde
is Production Editor, Marina Vanucci is
Deputy Editor, and Pantelis
Vlachos is System Managing Editor.

Bayesian Analysis seeks to publish a
wide range of articles that
demonstrate or discuss Bayesian methods
in some theoretical or applied
context. The journal welcomes
submissions involving presentation of
new computational and statistical
methods; reviews, criticism, and
discussion of existing approaches;
historical perspectives;
description of important scientific or
policy application areas; case
studies; and methods for experimental
design, data collection, data
sharing, or data mining. Evaluation of
submissions is based on
importance of content and effectiveness
of communication.

We aim to provide reports to authors
within 10 weeks of submission on
at least 80% of articles submitted.

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Heidi Rhodes Sestrich
Administrative Coordinator/
Document Production Specialist
Department of Statistics
Baker Hall 232A
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-2718