title: The Big Book Reference Manual: A compilation of words, phrases, and definitions
author: Bill B.
description: Bill B., a member of A.A. for over 23 years, carrying the message to those in need, lives and works in California.
zlib_text: Jean-Michel Marin and Christian P. RobertSpringer Texts in StatisticsBayesian
  Essentials with R2nd ed. 201410.1007/978-1-4614-8687-9_1
  
  © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
  
  # 1\. User’s Manual
  
  Jean-Michel Marin1  and Christian P. Robert2
  
  (1)
  
  Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
  
  (2)
  
  Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
  
  Abstract
  
  The Roadmap is a section that will start each chapter by providing a commented
  table of contents. It also usually contains indications on the purpose of the
  chapter.
  
  
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  The bare essentials, in other words.
  
  —Ian Rankin, Tooth & Nail.—
  
  Roadmap
  
  
  The
  
  
  Roadmap
  
  
  is a section that will start each chapter by providing a commented table of
  contents. It also usually contains indications on the purpose of the chapter.
  
  
  
  
  
  For instance, in this initial chapter, we explain the typographical notations
  that we adopted to distinguish between the different semantic levels of the
  c