We’re proposing a brand new part on Bayesian Social Sciences at ISBA. When you agree that this part can be helpful, please add your identify to the petition!
Bayesian strategies have develop into more and more well-liked in lots of Social Sciences: there have been functions in fields as various as Anthropology, Archaeology, Demography, Economics, Geography, Historical past, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology, amongst others. The enchantment of the Bayesian framework could also be philosophical, or could also be sensible, due to informative prior distributions, structured fashions that are properly suited to Bayesian inference, or a robust want for uncertainty quantification.
Statisticians and practitioners have not too long ago began assembly at workshops on Bayesian Strategies for the Social Sciences. The 2022 version in Paris and 2024 version in Amsterdam gathered round 80 contributors every; work has began to arrange the 2026 version.
To assist arrange this group, and to strengthen hyperlinks between statisticians and practitioners within the Social Sciences, we suggest to begin a brand new ISBA part on Bayesian Social Sciences. To create a brand new part, the ISBA bylaws require a petition signed by a minimum of 30 ISBA members.
In case you are , you may learn the proposed bylaws and add your identify to the petition. Please ahead to colleagues who would possibly discover this related!
The proposed preliminary part officers are:
Monica Alexander
Nial Friel
Adrian Raftery
Robin Ryder
EJ Wagenmakers
