Wonderful Examples, but Let's not Close Our Eyes

Abstract

The papers in this collection are superb illustrations of the power of modern Bayesian methods. They give examples of problems which are well suited to being tackled using such methods, but one must not lose sight of the merits of having multiple different strategies and tools in one's inferential armoury.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-STS446 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org