Anny Huang <annylhuang <at> gmail.com> writes: > I did some analysis using package R2WinBUGS to call WinBUGS. I set the > iterations to 50000 (fairly a large number, I think), but after the program > was done, the effective posterior samples contained only 7 draws. I don't > know why.
This indicates that you have a mixing problem! I guess that you do not have enough information to retrieve the post. dist. of that parameter. You might try to reconsider your model or reparametrize it. gg ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.