JAGS
What is JAGS?
JAGS is Just Another Gibbs Sampler. It is a program for analysis
of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
simulation not wholly unlike BUGS.
JAGS
was
written
with
three aims in mind:
- To have a cross-platform engine for the BUGS language
- To be extensible, allowing users to write their own functions,
distributions and samplers.
- To be a plaftorm for experimentation with ideas in Bayesian
modelling
JAGS is licensed under the GNU General Public
License. You may freely modify and redistribute it under certain
conditions (see the file COPYING for details).
News
The JAGS NEWS blog
has
been launched. If you want to be kept informed of updates to
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Latest version
The latest release is JAGS 3.2.0. It was released on January 3
2012.
Downloads
To download JAGS, please visit the files page
of the mcmc-jags project at sourceforge. You will find the source
for JAGS there as well as binary packages for Mac OS X (Thanks to Bill
Northcott) and Windows.
Binaries for Linux are distributed separately. There are packages
for various
RPM-based
Linux
distributions (RHEL 5; OpenSuSE 10, 11; SLES 9, CentOS 5,6)
(Thanks
to
Lars
Vilhuber), Debian and
the development version of Ubuntu (Thanks to
Dirk Eddelbuettel). You can track the current status of the
Debian packages here.
Another
Ubuntu
repository for older versions of Ubuntu is provided by Michael
Rutter.
Daniel Meliza also maintains a port of JAGS on MacPorts.
Development version
The JAGS source code is hosted on a Mercurial repository at
Sourceforge. If
you want to keep track of the development version, you can find
downloading instructions here.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags
Older releases of JAGS are available here.
Last updated 11 January 2012.
