`"Bayesian Data Analysis" is easily the most comprehensive, scholarly, and thoughtful book on the subject, and I think will do much to promote the use of Bayesian methods' - Prof. David Blackwell, Dept. of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. `[The book is] likely to have a profound influence on the direction of applied statistical work.' - Prof. Roderick Little, Chairman, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. `[The book is] a major contribution to the literature and is destined, in my opinion, to become a central text in the field' - Prof. Mike West, Director, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University. `The book demonstrates clearly the importance of Bayesian statistical thinking to the design, model building, inference, and model checking involved in any scientific investigation ... excellent taste in both breadth and depth of topics covered, and the writing style is extremely lucid.' - Prof. Noel Cressie, Dept. of Statistics, Iowa State University.