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PUBLICATIONS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND REFEREED CONFERENCES:

  1. van Dyk, D. A. and Park, T. (2010). Partially Collapsed Gibbs Sampling & Path-Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings in High-Energy Astrophysics. In Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Editors: S. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones and X.-L. Meng), Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, to appear. (Download pdf.).

  2. Connors, A. and van Dyk, D. A. (2007). How To Win With Non-Gaussian Data: Poisson Goodness-of-Fit. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, Vol. CS371, 101-117. (Download pdf.).

  3. Glickman, M. E. and van Dyk, D. A. (2007). Basic Bayesian Methods. In Methods in Molecular Biology: Elementary Biostatistics (Editor: Walter T. Ambrosius), Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 319-338. (Download pdf.).

  4. van Dyk, D. A. and Park, T., (2004). Efficient EM-Type Algorithms for Fitting Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics. In Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives: An Essential Journey with Donald Rubin's Statistical Family (Editors: A. Gelman and X. L. Meng), Wiley \& Sons, New York, 285-296. (Download pdf.).

  5. van Dyk, D. A. (2004). Highly-Structured Statistical Models in High Energy Astrophysics. In Proceedings of the Conference on Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (Editors: L. Lyons, R. Mount, and R. Reitmeyer), SLAC Technical Publications Department, Menlo Park, CA, 114-121. (Download pdf.).

  6. van Dyk, D. A. (2003). Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo with discussion. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy III (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Springer, New York, 41-56. (Download pdf.).

  7. van Dyk, D. A. and Hans, C. M. (2002). Accounting for Absorption Lines in Images Obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In Spatial Cluster Modelling (Editors: D. Denison and A. Lawson), CRC Press, London, 175-198. (Download pdf.).

  8. van Dyk, D. A. and Meng, X. L. (2000). The EM Algorithm. Invited entry in The Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.