Correlation between Viral Loads: Part 1
In Leicester we run a masters course in Medical Statistics and each year our students get a two-day course on fitting models by maximum likelihood using Stata’s -ml- command. For the last few years I have taught this course and so I have been on the lookout for examples based on real data that I can use as exercises […]
Running WinBUGS from Stata on a Mac
My only experience of running WinBUGS from within Stata is under Windows and Linux, but Tom Palmer, who was one of the authors of the original Stata Journal article on this topic http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0115, recently sent me instructions on how it can be done on a Mac. If you think that those instructions might be helpful […]
Keeping good records
No properly managed statistical analysis would use results that were calculated interactively because of the difficulty of reproducing them when you do not have a written record of exactly what was done. For this reason, Stata users usually store their commands in do files. When running WinBUGS from within Stata we need to create four […]
Why I don’t use WinBUGS priors
In the WinBUGS help system there are a number of worked examples that have been very influential in shaping the way that people perform Bayesian analysis. Those examples use very vague priors, such as a normal distribution with a mean of zero and standard deviation of a thousand. Many people have learned to use Bayesian […]
Welcome to Bayesian Analysis with Stata
Welcome, this is a new blog set up to discuss the use of Stata for conducting Bayesian statistical analyses. I have started it to coincide with the publication of my book entitled ‘Bayesian Analysis with Stata’, which will appear shortly. This project started many years ago when I needed to integrate Stata with WinBUGS, a free […]
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