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PUBLICATIONS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND REFEREED CONFERENCES:

  1. van Dyk, D. A., Park, T., and McKimm, H. (2024+). Partially Collapsed Gibbs Sampling & Path-Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings in High-Energy Astrophysics. In the Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo, to appear.

  2. Stenning, D. C. and van Dyk, D. A. (2018). Bayesian Statistical Methods for Astronomy Part I: Foundations. In Statistics for Astrophysics: Bayesian Methodology (Editors: Didier Fraix-Burnet, Stephane Girard, Julyan Arbel, Jean-Baptiste Marquette), EDP Sciences, France, pages 11--27.

  3. Stenning, D. C. and van Dyk, D. A. (2018). Bayesian Statistical Methods for Astronomy Part II: Markov Chain Monte Carlo. In Statistics for Astrophysics: Bayesian Methodology (Editors: Didier Fraix-Burnet, Stephane Girard, Julyan Arbel, Jean-Baptiste Marquette), EDP Sciences, France, pages 29--58.

  4. Stenning, D. C. and van Dyk, D. A. (2018). Bayesian Statistical Methods for Astronomy Part III: Model Building. In Statistics for Astrophysics: Bayesian Methodology (Editors: Didier Fraix-Burnet, Stephane Girard, Julyan Arbel, Jean-Baptiste Marquette), EDP Sciences, France, pages 59--75.

  5. Kasyap, V. L., van Dyk, D. A., McKeough, K., Primini, F., Jerius, D, Gowrishankar, A., Siemiginowska, A., and Zezas, A. (2017). X-raying the Evolution of SN 1987a. In the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (Editors: M. Renaud, A. Marcowith, G. Dobner, A. K. Ray, and A. M. Bykov), 12 , No. 331, 284-289. (DOI link)

  6. Jiao, X. and van Dyk, D. A. and Trotta, R. and Shariff, H. (2016). The Efficiency of Next-Generation Gibbs-Type Samplers: An Illustration Using a Hierarchical Model in Cosmology. In the Proceedings of the 2014 ICSA/KISS Joint Applied Statistics Symposium in Portland, OR (Editors: Z. Jin, M. Liu, and X. Luo), 167-184. (DOI link; Download pdf.)

  7. Stenning, D., van Dyk, D. A., Yu, Y., Kashyap, V. (2015). A Bayesian Analysis of the Solar Cycle Using Multiple Proxy Variables. In Current Trends in Bayesian Methodology with Applications (Editors: S. K. Upadhyay, U. Singh, D. K. Dey, and A. Loganathan), Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 585-608. (Download pdf.)

  8. Stenning, D., Kashyap, V., Lee, T. C. M., van Dyk, D. A., and Young, C. A. (2012). Morphological Image Analysis and Its Application to Sunspot Classification. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Springer Verlag, New York, 329-342. (Download pdf.)

  9. van Dyk, D. A. (2011). Setting Limits, Computing Intervals, and Detection. In Proceedings of Phystat 2011 (Editors: H. Prosper and L. Lyons), CERN Yellow Report, 149-157. (Download pdf.)

  10. van Dyk, D. A. and Park, T. (2011). Partially Collapsed Gibbs Sampling & Path-Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings in High-Energy Astrophysics. In Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Editors: S. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. Jones and X.-L. Meng), Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 383-399. (Download pdf.)

  11. Connors, A. and van Dyk, D. A. (2007). How To Win With Non-Gaussian Data: Poisson Goodness-of-Fit. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, Vol. CS371, 101-117. (Download pdf.)

  12. Glickman, M. E. and van Dyk, D. A. (2007). Basic Bayesian Methods. In Methods in Molecular Biology: Elementary Biostatistics (Editor: Walter T. Ambrosius), Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 319-338. (Download pdf.)

  13. van Dyk, D. A. and Park, T., (2004). Efficient EM-Type Algorithms for Fitting Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics. In Applied Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference from Incomplete-Data Perspectives: An Essential Journey with Donald Rubin's Statistical Family (Editors: A. Gelman and X. L. Meng), Wiley \& Sons, New York, 285-296. (Download pdf.)

  14. van Dyk, D. A. (2004). Highly-Structured Statistical Models in High Energy Astrophysics. In Proceedings of the Conference on Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (Editors: L. Lyons, R. Mount, and R. Reitmeyer), SLAC Technical Publications Department, Menlo Park, CA, 114-121. (Download pdf.)

  15. van Dyk, D. A. (2003). Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo with discussion. In Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy III (Editors: G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson), Springer, New York, 41-56. (Download pdf.)

  16. van Dyk, D. A. and Hans, C. M. (2002). Accounting for Absorption Lines in Images Obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In Spatial Cluster Modelling (Editors: D. Denison and A. Lawson), CRC Press, London, 175-198. (Download pdf.)

  17. van Dyk, D. A. and Meng, X. L. (2000). The EM Algorithm. Invited entry in The Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.