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Thanks,  Lance. This helps a lot.  The site works now
 http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/Welcome.html ) - I think is has been dead
for a few days. We have sent out for Carlin, B.P. and Louis, T.A. (1996)
Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis.

Richard Hoskins


----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Waller <lwaller@sph.emory.edu>
To: <waphgis@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: WAPHGIS: geostatstics


>
> For general information on Gibbs sampling and other Markov chain Monte
> Carlo methods in statistics, the following two books provide overviews
> and applications:
>
> Carlin, B.P. and Louis, T.A. (1996) Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for
> Data Analysis.  Chapman and Hall.
>
> Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S., and Rubin, D.B. (1995) Bayesian
> Data Analysis.  Chapman and Hall.
>
> (Chapman and Hall was purchased by CRC Press, so CRC handles distribution
> now).
>
> BUGS (the Unix version) is a static product now, no new development.
> WinBUGS (the Windows version) is still an active product and has nicer
> features (more graphics, etc) than BUGS did.
>
> The link for BUGS is
>
> http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/Welcome.html
>
> Then follow the link to WinBUGS.  A beta test version of WinBUGS 1.2
> is available.
>
> I'm not sure if they have the documentation in anything but postscript,
> but there some postscript to pdf converters floating around (I've used
> a Unix one with success).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lance
>
>
>

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