2008/3/24, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Ya. But speeds are rather different.
> > I admittely missed a comparison with Umacs in my short demo.
> > However, from some early experiments (I'm doing while I'm writing), as
> > I suspected, my approach results being many times faster tha
> Ya. But speeds are rather different.
> I admittely missed a comparison with Umacs in my short demo.
> However, from some early experiments (I'm doing while I'm writing), as
> I suspected, my approach results being many times faster than Umacs,
> even if one doesn't specify samplers as C code
Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo gmail.com> writes:
>
I agree that quantitative differences in speed can make
a qualitative difference in the way one works.
Well, I'm somewhat interested, but don't feel that I'm
necessarily appropriate as a mentor. I don't think it would
be terrible if you contac
Above all,
tnx Ben for taking time to read about my proposal!
2008/3/24, Ben Bolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > I've put online a temp web page with some more info (and sources):
> >
> > http://antonio.fabio.googlepages.com/rgs%3Athergibbssample
Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo gmail.com> writes:
>
> I've put online a temp web page with some more info (and sources):
>
> http://antonio.fabio.googlepages.com/rgs%3Athergibbssampler
>
> Bests,
> Antonio.
>
Have you seen Jouni Kerman's Umacs package? It sounds similar
in spirit.
Something I
I've put online a temp web page with some more info (and sources):
http://antonio.fabio.googlepages.com/rgs%3Athergibbssampler
Bests,
Antonio.
2008/3/21, Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dear R developers,
> these days I'm working on some R code for fitting completely generic
> B
Dear R developers,
these days I'm working on some R code for fitting completely generic
Bayesian Hierarchical Models in R, a la OpenBUGS and JAGS.
A key feature of OpenBUGS and JAGS is that they automatically build an
appropriate MCMC sampler from a generic model, specified as a directed
acyclic g
