Information about OpenBugs and WinBugs

Attention is drawn to David Lunn et al., The BUGS book: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis, Boca Racon: CRC Press 2013.

• WinBUGS is available on the University of York system
• OpenBUGS: the Homepage (OpenBUGS can be embedded in R as BRugs)
• Information about JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler)
• The R2WinBUGS package; manual for this
• BUGS: Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling
• BUGS: Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling: Overview and Demo
• BUGS: Documentation
• Information about installing OpenBUGS or WinBUGS on a map; alternatively try this
• BUGS: News and Latest Developments for BUGS
• The boa package: Bayesian Output Analysis Program; manual for this
• CODA: Convergence Diagnostic and Output Analysis
• The coda package for R; manual for this
• WinBUGS User Manual Version 1.4
• Bayesian Computational Methods by Gillian Raab
• Review of WinBugs 1.4 by Mary Kathryn Cowles from The American Statistician 58, 330-336.
• Programs from Peter Congdon's books Bayesian Statistical Methods (Wiley 2001 and 2006), Applied Bayesian Modelling (Wiley 2003) and Bayesian Models for Categorical Data (Wiley 2005) can be downloaded from http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/pcongdon.
• Programs from Joseph G Ibrahim, Ming-Hui Chen, and Debajyoti Sinha, Bayesian Survival Analysis, Springer-Verlag 2001, can be found at http://merlot.stat.uconn.edu/~mhchen/survbook/
• Information about Bayesian Computation with R and the related packages
  • The LearnBayes package; manual for this
  • The R2WinBUGS package; manual for this
  • The boa package; manual for this
  • The coda package; manual for this

Revised 3 July 2014