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For the 6th conference (1998) see Zbl 0942.00036. Contents: Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, Pilar L. Iglesias and Ignacio Vidal, Bayesian inference for elliptical linear models: conjugate analysis and model comparison (3--24); David M. Blei, Michael I. Jordan and Andrew Y. Ng, Hierarchical Bayesian models for applications in information retrieval (25--43); Bradley P. Carlin and Sudipto Banerjee, Hierarchical multivariate CAR models for spatio-temporally correlated survival data (45--63); Siddhartha Chib, On inferring effects of binary treatments with unobserved confounders (65--84); Hugh A. Chipman, Edward I. George and Robert E. McCulloch, Bayesian treed generalized linear models (85--103); Manuel Davy and Simon J. Godsill, Bayesian harmonic models for musical signal analysis (105--124); Adrian Dobra, Stephen E. Fienberg and Mario Trottini, Assessing the risk of disclosure of confidential categorical data (125--144); Christopher Genovese and Larry Wasserman, Bayesian and frequentist multiple testing (145--161); Eduardo Gutiérrez-Peña and Luis E. Nieto-Barajas, Bayesian nonparametric inference for mixed Poisson processes (163--179); Dave Higdon, Herbie Lee and Chris Holloman, Markov chain Monte Carlo-based approaches for inference in computationally intensive inverse problems (181--197); Valen E. Johnson, Todd L. Graves, Michael S. Hamada and C. Shane Reese, A hierarchical model for estimating the reliability of complex systems (199--213); Steffen L. Lauritzen, Rasch models with exchangeable rows and columns (215--232); Angelika van der Linde and Gerhard Osius, Discrimination based on an odds ratio parameterization (233--248) ; Jun S. Liu, Junni L. Zhang, Michael J. Palumbo and Charles E. Lawrence, Bayesian clustering with variable and transformation selections (249--275); Kerrie L. Mengersen and Christian P. Robert, IID sampling using self-avoiding population Monte Carlo: the pinball sampler (277--292); Michael A. Newton, Hyuna Yang, Patricia A. Gorman, Ian Tomlinson and Rebecca R. Roylance, A statistical approach to modeling genomic aberrations in cancer cells (293--305); Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Gareth O. Roberts and Martin Sköld, Non-centered parameterizations for hierarchical models and data augmentation (307--326); Daniel Peña, Julio Rodríguez and George C. Tiao, Identifying mixtures of regression equations by the SAR procedure (327--347); Jose Mario Quintana, Viridiana Lourdes, Omar Aguilar and Jane Liu, Global gambling (349--367); Gabriella Salinetti, New tools for consistency in Bayesian nonparametrics (369--384); Mark J. Schervish, Teddy Seidenfeld and Joseph B. Kadane, Measures of incoherence: how not to gamble if you must (385--401); Robert L. Wolpert, Katja Ickstadt and Martin B. Hansen, A nonparametric Bayesian approach to inverse problems (403--417); Ron Zohar and Dan Geiger, A novel framework for tracking groups of objects (419--440); M. Concepción Ausín, Rosa E. Lillo, Fabrizio Ruggeri and Michael P. Wiper, Bayesian modeling of hospital bed occupancy times using a mixed generalized Erlang distribution (443--451); Matthew J. Beal and Zoubin Ghahramani, The variational Bayesian EM algorithm for incomplete data: with application to scoring graphical model structures (453--463); José M. Bernardo and Miguel A. Juárez, Intrinsic estimation (465--476); S. T. Boris Choy, Jennifer S. K. Chan and Carrie H. K. Yam, Robust analysis and salamander data, generalized linear model with random effects (477--484); Alireza Daneshkhah and Jim Q. Smith, A relationship between randomized manipulation and parameter independence (485--492); Claus Dethlefsen, Markov random field extensions using state space models (493--500); Elena A. Erosheva, Bayesian estimation of the grade of membership model (501--510); Luis G. Esteves, Sergio Wechsler, Pilar L. Iglesias and Antônio L. Pereira, A variant version of the Pólya-Eggenberger urn model (511--518); Marco A. R. Ferreira, Mike West, Herbert K. H. Lee, David Higdon and Zhuoxin Bi, Multi-scale modelling of 1-D permeability fields (519--527); Don A. S. Fraser, Nancy Reid, Augustine Wong and Grace Y. Yi, Direct Bayes for interest parameters (529--533); Linda M. Garside and Darren J. Wilkinson, Dynamic lattice-Markov spatio-temporal models for environmental data (535--542); Petr Gebouský, Miroslav Kárný and Anthony Quinn, Lymphoscintigraphy of upper limbs: a Bayesian framework (543--552); F. Javier Girón, M. Lina Martínez, Elías Moreno and Francisco Torres, Bayesian analysis of matched pairs in the presence of covariates (553--563); Lara E. Jamieson and Stephen P. Brooks, State space models for density dependence in population ecology (565--575); Michael Lavine, A marginal ergodic theorem (577--585); Tyne Lefebvre, Klaas Gadeyne, Herman Bruyninckx and Joris De Schutter, Exact Bayesian inference for a class of nonlinear systems with application to robotic assembly (587--596); Valentina Leucari and Guido Consonni, Campatible priors for causal Bayesian networks (597--606); Bart J. A. Mertens, On the application of logistic regression modelling in microarray studies (607--617); Radford M. Neal, Density modeling and clustering using Dirichlet diffusion trees (619--629); Lawrence I. Pettit and Roger A. Sugden, Outlier robust estimation of a finite population total (631--639); Nicholas G. Polson and Jonathan R. Stroud, Bayesian inference for derivative prices (641--650); Carl Edward Rasmussen, Gaussian processes to speed up hybrid Monte Carlo for expensive Bayesian integrals (651--660); Abel Rodríguez, Giselle Álvarez and Bruno Sansó, Objective Bayesian comparison of Laplace samples from geophysical data (661--670); Steven L. Scott and Padhraic Smyth, The Markov modulated Poisson process and Markov Poisson cascade with applications to web traffic modeling (671--680); Elizabeth L. Smith and David Walshaw, Modelling bivariate extremes in a region (681--690); Toni Tamminen and Jouko Lampinen, Bayesian object matching with hierarchical priors and Markov chain Monte Carlo (691--700); Aki Vehtari and Jouko Lampinen, Expected utility estimation via cross-validation (701--710); Miguel Virto, Jacinto Martín, David Ríos Insua and Arminda Moreno Díaz, A method for sequential optimization in Bayesian analysis (711--719); Jon C. Wakefield, Chuan Zhou and Steve G. Self, Modelling gene expression data over time: curve clustering with informative prior distributions (721--732); Mike West, Bayesian factor regression models in the ``large \(p\), small \(n\)'' paradigm (733--742); Pingping Zheng and John M. Marriott, A Bayesian analysis of smooth transitions in trend (743--750). The articles will be reviewed individually.