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Archive of posts tagged JAGS

How not to compare the speed of Stan to something else

Someone’s wrong on the internet And I have to do something about it. Following on from Dan’s post on Barry Gibb statistical model evaluation, here’s an example inspired by a paper I found on Google Scholar searching for Stan citations. The paper (which there is no point in citing) concluded that JAGS was faster than […]

ShinyStan v2.0.0

For those of you not familiar with ShinyStan, it is a graphical user interface for exploring Stan models (and more generally MCMC output from any software). For context, here’s the post on this blog first introducing ShinyStan (formerly shinyStan) from earlier this year. ShinyStan v2.0.0 released ShinyStan v2.0.0 is now available on CRAN. This is […]

Parallel JAGS RNGs

As a matter of convention, we usually run 3 or 4 chains in JAGS. By default, this gives rise to chains that draw samples from 3 or 4 distinct pseudorandom number generators. I didn’t go and check whether it does things 111,222,333 or 123,123,123, but in any event the “parallel chains” in JAGS are samples […]