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Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling (BUGS) is a software package for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (based on Gibbs sampling).

It was developed by David Spigelhalter at the Medical Research Council’s biostatistics unit in Cambridge and released as free software in 1991. [1]

BUGs is used in the following software:[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (2011) ISBN 978-0-300-16969-0 page 226 Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).
  2. ^ David Lunn, David Spiegelhalter, Andrew Thomas and Nicky Best (2009). The BUGS project: Evolution, critique and future directions Archived 2012-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, Statistics in Medicine 28 (25), 3049–3067. doi:10.1002/sim.3680 PMID 19630097.
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