This volume contains the text of the twenty-five papers presented at two
workshops entitled Maximum-Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Applied
Statistics, which were held at the University of Wyoming from June 8 to
10, 1981, and from August 9 to 11, 1982. The workshops were organized to
bring together researchers from different fields to critically examine
maxi- mum-entropy and Bayesian methods in science, engineering,
medicine, oceanography, economics, and other disciplines. An effort was
made to maintain an informal environment where ideas could be easily
xchanged. That the workshops were at least partially successful is borne
out by the fact that there have been two succeeding workshops, and the
upcoming Fifth Workshop promises to be the largest of all. These
workshops and their proceedings could not have been brought to their
final form without the substantial help of a number of people. The
support of David Hofmann, the past chairman, and Glen Rebka, Jr., the
present chairman of the Physics Department of the University of Wyoming,
has been strong and essential. Glen has taken a special interest in
seeing that the proceedings have received the support required for their
comple- tion. The financial support of the Office of University Research
Funds, University of Wyoming, is gratefully acknowledged. The
secretarial staff, in particular Evelyn Haskell, Janice Gasaway, and
Marce Mitchum, of the University of Wyoming Physics Department has
contributed a great number of hours in helping C. Ray Smith organize and
direct the workshops.
