Re: [R] Getting Started with Bayesian MCMC

2010-04-14 Thread Greg Snow
3, 2010 5:50 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Getting Started with Bayesian MCMC > > Hi all, > > I would like to start to use R's MCMC abilities to compute answers in > Bayesian statistics. I don't have any specific problems in mind yet, > but I wou

Re: [R] Getting Started with Bayesian MCMC

2010-04-13 Thread Shige Song
Hi Ben, Before you begin playing with BUGS/JAGS, there are several native R packages that deal with a wide variety of Bayesian models that worth considering. Among many others, I find MCMCpack, DPpackage, and MCMCglmm very useful (and convenient). Best, Shige On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Ben

[R] Getting Started with Bayesian MCMC

2010-04-13 Thread Ben
Hi all, I would like to start to use R's MCMC abilities to compute answers in Bayesian statistics. I don't have any specific problems in mind yet, but I would like to be able to compute/sample posterior probabilities for low-dimensional custom models, as well as handle "standard" Bayesian cases l