The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 3049-3067

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

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian modelling; BUGS; Graphical models; OpenBUGS; WinBUGS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COVARIANCE; FUNDING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; SELF TUNING METROPOLIS UPDATER; SELF TUNING VARIANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; VARIANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70449411807     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3680     Document Type: Article

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