Gene expression profi ling of peripheral blood or aff ected tissues in patients with autoimmune diseases has revealed important insights into the molecular pathways underlying autoimmunity [1]. Several groups have used gene expression profi ling in an attempt to uncover clues to the pathogenesis of dermatomyositis (DM) (Table 1). Th e most prominent and consistent fi nding of these studies has ...

Corresponding author: Tomoyuki Kawada Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Natasha et al. [1] conducted a cross-sectional study on the prevalence of depression in 2,293 adults of Bangladesh, stratified by the level of glucose abnormality. The authors also checked the association between depressio...

The goal of this article is an exact Bayesian analysis of the Heston (1993) stochastic volatility model. We carefully study the affect different parameterizations of the latent volatility process and the parameters of the volatility process have on the convergence and the mixing behavior of the sampler. We apply the sampler to simulated data and to some DM/US$ exchange rate data.