Graphical Determination of Contemporaries

Marie Curie and Her Contemporaries

Marie Curie was Polish born, her maiden name was Sklodowska. Her father was a high school teacher, an able physicist; her mother was a teacher as well. They were keen patriots and most unhappy about the sad fate of their fatherland. Poland was under the heel of tsarist Russia. Supervisors were sent from Moscow to verify if the school children were brought up as Russian patriots and were taught ...

The Contemporaries of William Heberden

William Heberden's 1768 presentation was followed very closely by reports from the quills of many contemporary English physicians who, either retrospectively or prospectively, diagnosed from among their patients some who were suffering from angina pectoris. Dr John Wall of Worcester, for example, reported seeing no fewer than twelve or thirteen such patients.6' By 1776 Fothergill was referring ...

The Gandhian Ashram and its Contemporaries

This paper explores the Gandhian Ashram as a reaction to the forces of modernity in the late 19 th and early 20 th Centuries. Its deviation from the existing historiography is primarily in its exploration of the Ashram as one of many incidents of communal experiments at the time, which have an interesting geographic connection in London. I note Gandhi's readings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy, ...

MCMC model determination for discrete graphical models

In this paper we compare two alternative MCMC samplers for the Bayesian analysis of discrete graphical models; we present both a hierarchical and a nonhierarchical version of them. We Žrst consider the MC3 algorithm by Madigan and York (1995) for which we propose an extension that allows for a hierarchical prior on the cell counts. We then describe a novel methodology based on a reversible jump...

Efficient Model Determination for Discrete Graphical Models