heather wainer editorial assistantbayesian analysis nldexrjstatcmuedu first issue new electronic journal bayesian analysis published httpbastatcmuedu first issue includes following articles fienberg bayesian inference become bayesian gelfand j silander wu latimer p lewis rebelo holder explaining species distribution patterns hierarchical modeling commentary j hoeting j verhoef l house clyde huang bayesian identification differential gene expression induced metals human bronchial epithelial cells blei jordan variational inference dirichlet process mixtures c holmes l held bayesian auxiliary variable models binary multinomial regression j andrade ohagan bayesian robustness modelling using regularly varying distributions bayesian analysis sponsored international society bayesian analysis isba founding editors alicia carriquiry phil dawid david heckerman xiaoli meng christian robert fabrizio ruggeri dalene stangl bayesian analysis seeks publish wide range articles demonstrate discuss bayesian methods theoretical applied context journal welcomes submissions involving presentation new computational statistical methods reviews criticism discussion existing approaches historical perspectives description important scientific policy application areas case studies methods experimental design data collection data sharing data mining evaluation submissions based importance content effectiveness communication goal provide reports authors within 10 weeks submission least 80 articles submitted achieved goal approximately 50 papers handled date wed 06 aug 2008 114239 0400 uai bayesian analysis first issue