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  TITLE=" Introduction to Bayesian methods and <br>implementation via R/JAGS"
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I'll give a brief overview of Bayesian methods for data analysis, contrasting this to traditional frequentist methods.  I'll follow this with a hands-on tutorial of how to fit a Bayesian regression model in JAGS via R. <br><br>
Prior to the workshop, please download JAGS software at ==<http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/>== and the R package ==rjags==.<br><br>
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pdf	SavilleBayesIntro.pdf	manage	404.5 K	14 Sep 2018 - 15:15	BenSaville
R	RjagsReg.R	manage	4.6 K	14 Sep 2018 - 15:14	BenSaville
Rnw	RjagsReg.Rnw	manage	7.4 K	14 Sep 2018 - 15:24	BenSaville

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