Overview
Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Research interests include Bayesian methods, categorical data analysis, and nonparametric statistics. Co-authored with Alan Agresti the 2005 survey on Bayesian inference for categorical data in Statistical Methods & Applications.
Key Contributions / Features
- Agresti and Hitchcock (2005) — "Bayesian Inference for Categorical Data Analysis," Statistical Methods & Applications 14: 297–330. Comprehensive survey of Bayesian methods for binomial/multinomial parameters, contingency tables, loglinear models, and categorical regression from Good (1953) through MCMC; documents the Altham-Fisher P-value equivalence, Leonard's logit-normal hierarchy, and Albert-Chib data augmentation.
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