[R] Support for Bayesian statistics in R

[Liaw, Andy]

> From: Kevin S. Van Horn [mailto:kvanhorn at ksvanhorn.com] 
> 
> 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?

I just bought a copy of "Bayesian Data Analysis", 2nd edition, by Gelman,
Carlin, Stern & Rubin, at JSM.  The Appendix C, "Example of computation in R
and Bugs", points to http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bugsR/, which has
instructions/code for running WinBUGS from within R.  Looks like that
appendix is on that web site as well.

HTH,
Andy

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