Introduction to Bayesian Estimation and Copula Models of Dependence

Acknowledgments

We express our sincere appreciation to all of our friends and colleagues who contributed to this book in many different ways. We are grateful for many discussions we had and many comments we received from Paul Alper, Susan Callaway, Oleg Lepekhin, Alex McNeil, Olga Demidova, and many others.

We deeply appreciate the assistance we have received with collecting supplementary materials and preparing files for the companion website from Laura Hanson, Kathryn McKee, Cheryl Heskin, Matthew Galloway, Shannon Currier, Natalie Vandeweghe, and Stephanie Fritz.

We are grateful to our collaborators on the research projects which became the foundation for the book: Heekyung Youn, Natalia Kangina, Alicia Johnson, Vadim Gordeev, Matthew Galloway, Ellen Klingner, Nicole Lenz, Nicole Lopez, Kelsie Sargent, and Katheryn Wifvat.

We want to thank all of those to whom the material in the book was presented over the years and who contributed with their thoughtful comments regarding both the form and the content of the book. Special thanks are due to Sarah Millholland, Valentin Artemiev, Yuri Chepasov, Anastasia Rozhkova, Ekaterina Savinkina, Alexander Zyrianov, Doug Swisher, Laura Fink, Eric Schlicht, and many other students and seminar participants.

We would like to acknowledge the staff of our schools, Astrakhan State University and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, for their support of our work and making this project possible.

We also would like to thank all the editorial ...