Ronald Christensen is a professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Christensen is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is a past editor of The American Statistician and a past chair of the ASA’s Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. His research interests include linear models, Bayesian inference, log-linear and logistic models, and statistical methods.
Praise for the First Edition: ... written in a clear and lucid style ... an excellent candidate for a beginning level graduate textbook on statistical methods ... a useful reference for practitioners. -Zentralblatt fur Mathematik Being devoted to students mainly, each chapter includes illustrative examples and exercises. The most important thing about this book is that it provides traditional tools for future approaches in the big data domain since, as the author says, the machine learning techniques are directly based on the fundamental statistical methods. ~Marina Gorunescu (Craiova)