Dear list members, This is not a very specific question on R for ecological analysis, but is related.
I have been in courses where R and WinBugs are used together for data analysis, however, I still don´t understand why R need to use WinBUGS to perform some bayesian analysis. I teach statistics through R for graduate students, however, teaching bayesian statistics using R and Winbugs is not so intuitive. Is harder for them to grasp bayesian statistics in that way. I have read form several authors that bayesian statistics is more intuitive than frecuentist statistics, however, doing through R and WInBUGS, is not the case for students. For example I think student will understand more what they are doing if they only see a line of code for R where you can specify everything and do it only in R, rather than writing things for R and things for WinBUGS. Is really WinBUGS necessary? Is R not capable of doing the same type of analysis? Any input will be appreciated. Best, Manuel -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspin...@una.ac.cr mspinol...@gmail.com Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de río <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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