On Aug 10, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: > I'm just starting to learn to use R, and although I'm seeing lots of > functions aimed at doing orthodox statistical analyses, I don't see the > same for Bayesian analyses. What support does R have for Bayesian > statistics?
There are several packages on CRAN that support various Bayesian techniques. I've had considerable success with Martin and Quinn's MCMCpack which includes formulations of a number of common--and some relatively uncommon--models in the social sciences (also requires the "coda" package), but I believe there are several others as well. You can also interface with the separate BUGS/WinBUGS system (which uses an R-like syntax for its own programming) if you need to do anything that isn't "canned" already. See http://scythe.wustl.edu/mcmcpack.html for MCMCpack, or search the packages listing at http://cran.r-project.org/ for the word "Bayes." Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall - 662-915-5765 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
