Poisson regression with two random effects: WinBUGS, OpenBUGS and JAGS Options
In my last posting (available here) I described Stata programs that call WinBUGS, OpenBUGS or JAGS to fit a Poisson regression model with two random effects. WinBUGS, OpenBUGS and JAGS make automatic choices about the samplers that they use and in my previous comparison I accepted the defaults offered by those programs. This week I want to look […]
Poisson regression with two random effects: WinBUGS, OpenBUGS or JAGS
Over the last two weeks I have been looking at the analysis of the epilespy trial data taken from Thall and Vail (1990). So far I have concentrated on a Bayesian analysis of those data using Stata alone, but this model involves Poisson regression with two random effects, so it is quite complex and it takes a […]
JAGS with Stata III
Merry Christmas This will be my last posting before Christmas and in January I will be abroad for a few weeks so I will not be posting again until February. I have several topics in mind for the new year, including more on JAGS, a discussion of the use of Stan and more on using […]
JAGS with Stata II
This week I want to take a more detailed look at the use of JAGS with Stata and in particular I want to contrast JAGS with WinBUGS by analysing the biopsy data that I described last time. This posting really needs to be read in sequence with the previous two. Before I start on the comparison, let […]
Modelling heart biopsies
Last week I introduced the JAGS program as an alternative to WinBUGS and this week I started with the intention of comparing JAGS and WinBUGS using a sample dataset. I decided to base the comparison on the biopsy example taken from the WinBUGS help files. Predictably, by the time that I had explained the model and fitted it […]
JAGS with Stata
WinBUGS and OpenBUGS are just two of a growing number of blackbox programs for performing Bayesian analysis. Others include, JAGS (http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/), Stan (http://mc-stan.org/) and BiiPS(https://alea.bordeaux.inria.fr/biips/doku.php). Of these, the program that is closest in style to WinBUGS and OpenBUGS is JAGS; it has a similar structure and it uses very similar samplers. So it should be easy to modify the […]
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