Articles published in the March 2006 issue of R News
Editorial
Martyn Plummer and Paul Murrell 1
Applied Bayesian inference in R using MCMCpack
Andrew D. Martin and Kevin M. Quinn 2
CODA: Convergence diagnosis and output analysis for MCMC
Martyn Plummer, Nicky Best, Kate Cowles and Karen Vines 7
Bayesian software validation
Samantha Cook and Andrew Gelman 11
Making BUGS open
Andrew Thomas, Bob OH́ara, Uwe Ligges and Sibylle Sturtz 12
The BUGS language
Andrew Thomas 17
Bayesian data analysis using R
Jouni Kerman and Andrew Gelman 21
Erratum
24