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Dear R-users (and developers), I am looking for an efficient framework to carry out parameter estimations based on MCMC (optionally with specified priors). My goal is as follow: * take ANY R-function returning a likelihood-value (this function may itself call external programmes or other code!) * run a sampler that covers the multidimensional parameter space (thus creating a posterior

Dear R users, I am leaning MCMC sampling, and have a problem while trying to sample exponential r.v.'s via the following code: samp <- MCMCmetrop1R(dexp, theta.init=1, rate=2, mcmc=5000, burnin=500, thin=10, verbose=500, logfun=FALSE) I tried other distribtions such as Normal, Gamma with shape>1, it works perfectly fine. Can someon

Hi, I'm having issues with what I believe is a bug in the MCMCpack's MCMCmetrop1R function. I have code that basically looks like this: posterior.sampler <- function(data, prior.mu){ log.posterior <- function(theta) log.likelihood(data, theta) + log.prior(prior.mu, theta) post.samples <- MCMCmetrop1R(log.posterior, theta.init=prior.mu, burnin=100, mcmc=1000, thin=40,

I'm having some problems in installing some source packages under linux. As an example, MCMCpack. An error is raised when linking: > install.packages("MCMCpack") [...] * Installing *source* package 'MCMCpack' ... checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking

A naive question from a non-statistician: I'm looking into running a Bayesian analysis of a model with high dimensionality. It's not a standard model (the likelihood requires a lot of code to implement), and I'm using a Linux machine. Was wondering if someone has any thoughts on what the advantages of OpenBugs are as opposed to just R (or should I be thinking WinBUGS under Wine?)?

Dear R-users I have a problem choosing initial points for the function arms() in the package HI I intend to implement a Gibbs sampler and one of my conditional distributions is nonstandard and not logconcave. Therefore I'd like to use arms. But there seem to be a strong influence of the initial point y.start. To show the effect I constructed a demonstration example. It is reproducible

Hello, thank you very much for your previous answers about the C++ code. I am interested in the application of the Gibbs Sampler in the IRT models, so in the function MCMCirt1d and MCMCirtkd. I've found the C++ source codes, as you suggested, but I cannot find anything about the Gibbs Sampler. All the files are for the Metropolis algorithm. Maybe I am not able to read them very well, by the

What is the current state of the R-art for ordered probit models, and more esoterically is there any available R strategy for ordered cauchit models, i.e. ordered multinomial alternatives with a cauchy link function. MCMC is an option, obviously, but for a univariate latent variable model this seems to be overkill... standard mle methods should be preferable. (??) Googling reveals that spss

Dear R-helpers, Hi! All. I'm doing a project which needs MCMC simulation. I wonder whether there exists related packages in R. The only one I know is a MCMCpack package. What I want to do is implementing gibbs sampling and Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm to get the posterior of hierarchical bayesian models. Thanks in advance. Jun

Is there a way to recover Metropolis-step acceptance rates AFTER completing posterior draws? The immediate application is in the probit.bayes and logit.bayes models used by Zelig... which I believe is merely calling MCMCpack. So one strategy, to which I am fixing to resort, is to call, say, MCMClogit with verbose set to mcmc (or mcmc divided by an integer) and then look at my screen.

I installed R-2.3.1 and ran make check without problem, but I am having trouble installing several packages using gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 7) Kernel 2.4.21-40.ELsmp on an x86_64 Below are the messages from MCMCpack. Perhaps my systems are messed up? Paul Gilbert > install.packages("MCMCpack")

I look for codes sources of R (examples of application) to implement examples on Monte Carlo, MCMC and Gibbs sampling. -- Dr. P. NGOM, Facult? des Sciences et Techniques D?partement de Math?matiques et Informatique Universit? Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar - S?n?gal ---------------------------------------------------------------- Universite Cheikh Anta DIOP - DAKAR

Dear All I try to use your R package MCMCpack and I have encountered the following problem: The following code works fine: library(MCMCpack) line <- list(X = c(-2,-1,0,1,2), Y = c(1,3,3,3,5)) posterior1 <- MCMCregress(X~Y, data=line) summary(posterior1) But as long as I try the following lines library(MCMCpack) line <- list(X = c(-2,-1,0,1,2), Y = c(1,3,3,3,5))

Compilation of MCMCpack under freebsd 6.2 i386 fails because of the following cryptic error: * Installing *source* package 'MCMCpack' ... checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we

Hi list, I tried to install MCMCpack to R-2.12.0, got the following error, CC -m64 -library=stlport4 -I/apps/sparcv9/R-2.12.0/lib/R/include -DSCYTHE_COMPILE_DIRECT -DSCYTHE_DEBUG=0 -DHAVE_TRUNC -DHAVE_IEEEFP_H -I/opt/csw/include -KPIC -g -c MCMCSVDreg.cc -o MCMCSVDreg.o "error.h", line 598: Error: The function "abort" must have a prototype.

R users- In moving from R 2.0.0 to R 2.1.0 in Windows, I have encountered a problem with the "riwish" command in the package "MCMCpack". I've searched the documentation and can't seem to figure it out. For example: Define a matrix: > lam <- matrix(c(.00233,-.00057,-.00057,.00190),2,2) and then use the riwish command to generate a random inverse-Wishart

Hello, just to follow up a question from last week. Here what I've done so far (here an example): library(MCMCpack) Y=c(15,14,23,18,19,9,19,13) X1=c(0.2,0.6,0.45,0.27,0.6,0.14,0.1,0.52) X2a=c(17,22,21,18,19,25,8,19) X2b=c(22,22,29,34,19,26,17,22) X2 <- function()runif(length(X2a), X2a, X2b) model1 <- MCMCregress(Y~X1+X2()) summary(model1) but I am not sure if my X2-function is

Hola, buenas a todos: Me dispongo a empezar un proyecto con logística bayesiana y sé que hay varios paquetes que puedo utilizar, arm, Bayelogit y MCMCpack. Me preguntaba si alguien tiene experiencia con éstos paquetes y me pueda decir cuál de ellos es mejor. Además de esto quería saber si sabíais alguna bibliografía para informarme mejor sobre lógica bayesiana, tengo algunas referencias,

I'm just starting to learn to use R, and although I'm seeing lots of functions aimed at doing orthodox statistical analyses, I don't see the same for Bayesian analyses. What support does R have for Bayesian statistics?

Hello Everyone Both the MCMCpack and the bayesm libraries allow us to make draws from the Inverse Wishart distribution. But I wanted to find out how exactly is the Inverse Wishart distribution parameterized in these libraries. The reason I ask is the following: Now its generally standard to express Inverse Wishart as IW(0.5 * DOF,0.5* Scale). (DOF-> Degree of freedom, Scale -> Scale