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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,

Dear fellow R-users, I have the problem of being unable to repeatedly use a C++-function within R unless by dyn.unloading/dyn.loading it after each .C call. The C++-code (too large to attach) compiles without problem using R CMD SHLIB. It loads (using dyn.load("myfun.so")) and executes (via .C(myfun, ...) ) properly. The function returns no object, only reads files from disk,

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-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

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

Hi all, I would like to start to use R's MCMC abilities to compute answers in Bayesian statistics. I don't have any specific problems in mind yet, but I would like to be able to compute/sample posterior probabilities for low-dimensional custom models, as well as handle "standard" Bayesian cases like linear regression and hierarchical models. R clearly has a lot of abilities in

Dear all, I am trying to use the logistic regression with MCMClogit (package: MCMCpack/Coda) and I want to put a beta prior on the parameters, but it's giving me error message (please see output below) no matter what shape 1 or 2 I use. It works perfect with the cauchy or normal priors. Do you know if there is a catch there somewhere? Thanks logpriorfun <- function(beta,shape1,shape2){

Hello R Programmers, We have a large existing Perl codebase which is currently being upgraded to use the new optimizing RPerl compiler (not related to the R language). http://rperl.org/ Also in use by the same Perl codebase is some custom R code which loads the "bayesm" library in order to execute Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) calculations.

Hi, I have a dataset with the binary outcome Y(0,1) and 4 covariates (X1,X@,X#,X$). I am trying to use MCMClogit to model logistic regression using MCMC. I am getting an error where it doesnt identify the covariates ,although its reading in correctly. The dataset is a sample of actual dataset. Below is my code: > ####################### > > > #retreive data > # considering four

Hi: Is there a R-function that can generate samples from the posterior distribution of an ordered logistic regression model (just like MCMCoprobit from MCMCpack in R). I will greatly appreciate some guidance in this regard. Thanks Reez

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

Dear All, What is the preferred way to get Bayesian analysis results (such as those from MCMCpacki, MCMCglmm, and DPpackage) into LaTeX table automatically? I have been using the "apsrtable" package and similar functions in "memisc" package, but neither seems to handle MCMC output directly. Many thanks. Shige

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

Dear R developers, these days I'm working on some R code for fitting completely generic Bayesian Hierarchical Models in R, a la OpenBUGS and JAGS. A key feature of OpenBUGS and JAGS is that they automatically build an appropriate MCMC sampler from a generic model, specified as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The spirit of my (would-be) implementation is instead more focused on experimentation

I'm trying to read CODA/mcmc files (see the coda package), as generated by jags/WinBUGS/OpenBUGS, into a big.matrix. I can't load the whole mcmc object produced by read.coda() into memory since I'm using a laptop for this analysis (currently I'm unfunded). Right now I'm doing it by creating the filebacked.big.matrix, reading a chunk of data at a time from the chain

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

Hello, I am about to move all of my modelling work into R, and I have been investigating the present state of MCMC and Bayesian methods in R. Following a thread on the mailing list in 2000, I have looked at mcmcpack and Hydra. Three years down the line, is there anything new in this area? I have used both MCSim and WinBUGS in the past. The first one seems promising, but is too focused towards

Hi, I used the MCMCirtKd function of MCMCpack: posterior2 <- MCMCirtKd(data, dimensions = 2, + burnin = 5000, mcmc = 50000, thin = 10, + verbose = 10000, B0 = .25, store.item = TRUE, item.constraints = beta.constraints) And after apply the comand summary() I got some erros and warnings that I could not understand: summary.posterior2 <- summary(posterior2)

Hello, I tryed to use the MCMC pack, particularly the function MCMCirtKd to simulate the posterior distribution in a multidimensional IRT model. The code I used is: posterior1 <- MCMCirtKd(Y, dimensions=2, item.constraints=list("V2"=list(3,0)), burnin = 1000, mcmc = 10000, thin=1, verbose = 1, seed = NA, alphabeta.start = NA, b0 = 0, B0=0, store.item = FALSE,