WinBUGS
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| Maintainer | will no longer be developed |
| developer | The BUGS Project |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| Current version | 1.4.3 (August 6, 2007) |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| programming language | Component Pascal |
| category | Statistics software |
| License | Freeware |
| www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/software/bugs | |
WinBUGS is a software which is used for questions of Bayesian statistics with the help of the Monte Carlo simulation .
The name WinBUGS is made up of BUGS ( Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling ) and Microsoft Windows as the only directly compatible operating system. WinBUGS emerged from this BUGS project, which has its origins at the Medical Research Council (Cambridge) and Imperial College London . WinBUGS is no longer being developed; the developers deal with OpenBUGS from the same application area. The software version, however, is still stable, includes a graphical user interface and options for monitoring and convergence of the algorithms. WinBUGS can also be operated in batch mode or called from other software. There are interfaces to R , Microsoft Excel , SAS and MATLAB . An analysis in WinBUGS consists of the specification of the model, data, start values and the output. Usually everything is put together in one file.
See also
literature
- David J. Lunn et al. a .: WinBUGS - a Bayesian Modeling Framework . Concepts, Structure and Extensibility . In: Statistics and Computing . tape 10 , no. 4 . Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, p. 325-337 .
- Ioannis Ntzoufras: Bayesian Modeling Using WinBUGS . John Wiley & Sons, Chichester 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-14114-4 ( material ).
- David J. Lunn et al. a .: The BUGS Book . A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis . Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton 2010, ISBN 978-1-58488-849-9 , pp. 300-314 .