Title: Poor Motivation
Review: This book is completely inadequate in my view. I'm using this text for a graduate course in Bayesian Stat. and it is extremely frustrating. The author gives almost no theoretical motivation for why one should use the methods described in the text. For example, what makes Gibbs sampling better or worse than Metropolis-Hastings. I read the chapter on this and still had to look at a Wikipedia article to gain this basic insight. The wiki also did a better job of theoretically justifying the algorithm. I'm sorry but that is just pitiful. Try something else, even if you're a beginner.
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