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Evaluation of Posterior

After specification of the model in WinBUGS, the analysis is carried out using the normal MCMC techniques as described in Chapter gif to sample from the full conditionals.

As outlined in Section gif Gibbs sampling takes from the full conditional distribution of each of the variables, and the joint posterior is the target distribution.

For example, letting tex2html_wrap_inline3143 denote tex2html_wrap_inline3145 , that is the parameters, except tex2html_wrap_inline3147 ,

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and similarly for the other variables.



Cathal Walsh
Sat Jan 22 17:09:53 GMT 2000