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). 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. (2011). Bayesian Statistics in NZ Universities Undergraduate Curriculum. In NZStatistical Association Conference. Conference held at Auckland University.
Bolstad, W. (2010). Comparing the Bayesian and likelihood approaches to inference: A graphical approach. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (pp. 1-6). New Zealand: International Association of Statistical Education (IASE).
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.