... Forhypercubic lattices, the critical points, Tc(d), are given by d-fold integralsover the basic lattice generating function which can be reduced to a sin-gle integral involving the dimensio nality, d, ... dynamic and computer intensive of all theareas of statistical endeavour; building upon models used originally in thedescription of physical systems and borrowing and improving upon ideasfrom ... physics.Monte Carlo methods, in particular, have played a dominant role in dealing with problems of inference. The practicalities of working with highdimensional parameter sets within a Bayesian framework,...