Intro+to+WinBUGS.pptVIP

Introduction to WinBUGS Olivier Gimenez University of St Andrews, Scotland A brief history 1989: project began with a Unix version called BUGS 1998: first Windows version, WinBUGS was born Initially developed by the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge and now joint work with Imperial College School of Medicine at St Marys, London. Windows Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling Software for the Bayesian analysis of complex statistical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods Who? Key principle You specify the prior and build up the likelihood WinBUGS computes the posterior