Whither Applied Bayesian Inference

In this chapter I would like to o er some thoughts on where we ve been where we are and where we hope to go as applied Bayesians in the next few years Mercifully this task is far easier than reviewing Prof Rubin s contributions to the eld a summary of the impact of the EM algorithm and its extensions alone would easily ll my available space or even giving a cogent overview of the applied Bayesian papers included in this part of the book which also cover a very broad range of application Nor will I attempt a textbook style review of applied Bayesian methods since that is not the purpose of this book and in any case many ne such treatments including of course Gelman Carlin Stern and Rubin already exist