Robert,
If you're thinking about BUGS, I would suggest JAGS as an
alternative. It's open-source (GPL), and runs on any Unix
system:
http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/
Kostas
On 10/27/11 03:06 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Another statistical package that could benefit from combined
> symbolic& numerical computations is the Bayesian inference
> package BUGS. I made some progress (far from a complete implementation)
> of a scheme to attempt symbolic computation first and then fall
> back on a numerical scheme. (The calculations of interest are integrals.)
> I wrote a paper about that if you're interested.
>
> I'd be interested to hear yours or anyones thoughts about this stuff.
>
> best, Robert Dodier
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