R News Volume 6/1

Articles published in the March 2006 issue of R News

Complete issue

Table of contents

Editorial
Martyn Plummer and Paul Murrell 1

Contributed Research Articles

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

News and Notes

Erratum
24