Dr William (Bill) Bolstad
Honorary Fellow (Statistics)
Research Interests
Bayesian statistics; MCMC methods; multiprocess dynamic time series models; forecasting and control; recursive estimation.
Recent Publications
Bolstad, W. M. (2011). Bayesian Statistics in NZ Universities Undergraduate Curriculum. In NZStatistical Association Conference. Conference held at Auckland University.
Bolstad, W. M. (2011). Benchmarking WinBUGS and OpenBUGS to independent Metropolis‐Hastings with heavy‐tailed candidate for GLMs : Part 2. In NZ Statistical Association Conference. Conference held at Auckland University.
Bolstad, W. M. (2010). Understanding Computational Bayesian Statistics (1st ed.). New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons.
Bolstad, W. M. (2010). Efficient MCMC using Metropolis-Hastings. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Conference held at Benidorm, Spain. 2010.