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The author has contributed to extend the applications of Bayesian methods. Every day the Bayesian paradigm gains new followers in different areas of human knowledge. In this case the researchers who are interested in applying Bayesian methods to social and behavioral sciences will find an excellent treatment of the subject and related topics. The book comprises a rigorous study on the Bayesian paradigm and several of its methods. Furthermore, the author also pays special attention on practical applications. With this title the author accomplishes to fill the wide gap between the background of the median empirically trained social or behavioral scientist and the full weight of Bayesian statistical inference. Besides the basic concepts of the Bayes' theory, the book contains the tools that revolutionized and led to the current renaissance of Bayesian statistics such as Monte Carlo and related methods, for example numerical integration, importance sampling, EM algorithm, and Markov chain Monte Carlo. In addition, in chapter 10 the reader can find how to model social or behavioral research problems' data using the Bayesian hierarchical approach. The author confers great importance to the computational sight of Bayesian methods. BUGS and R statistical software are used for developing examples to illustrate the principal concepts and applications. The book is not designed for a first-semester course in social and behavioral statistics. Instead, it is intended to extend the training of graduate students and researchers with some experience in social statistics.