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SIDDHARTHA CHIB

Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1133, 1 Brookings Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
Office: 249 Simon Hall
Email: chib@wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-4657
Fax: (314) 935-6359

Research and Teaching

Professor Chib is an econometrician and statistician who works in Bayesian statistics, econometrics, and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Society of Bayesian Analysis, and the Journal of Econometrics. Since 2003, he has directed the annual NBER-NSF-sponsored Seminar in Bayesian Econometrics and Statistics (SBIES), a conference featuring presentations by young and established researchers working on the theory and application of Bayesian methods.

He teaches statistics and econometrics to students in the MBA, specialized MS, and doctoral programs.

In his research, which is available here, he has developed novel inferential approaches and methods for diverse problems, including the analysis of binary, categorical, and censored data, the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, the computation of marginal likelihoods in parametric and non-parametric Bayesian models, and techniques for estimating and comparing complex models. His work has been widely used in statistics, economics, biostatistics, social sciences and the physical sciences.

Current research is focused on developing moment-based Bayesian nonparametric methods, Bayesian causal inference from moments, endogeneity testing in distribution-free regression, scalable estimation of discrete choice models with unknown choice sets, nonparametric slope factors for asset pricing, and consistent change-point detection in non-conjugate VAR models.

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