WinBUGS - A Bayesian modelling framework: Concepts, structure, and extensibility

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-337

  Lunn, David J ^a   Thomas, Andrew ^a   Best, Nicky ^a   Spiegelhalter, David ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BUGS; Directed acyclic graphs; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Object orientation; Run time linking; Type extension; WinBUGS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006407254     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008929526011     Document Type: Article

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