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Hi,

I am using JAGS for simulating some MCMC distributions. I see the support for a sizeable set of distributions. But, I would like to sample out of a specific distribution that is not defiend in JAGS. Does anyone know how to write our own custom distributions?

Thanks!

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Have you looked into WBDev?

http://www.winbugs-development.org.uk/

dave
yep. but I am developing for the mac/unix.
Jija
Here's something I found for Mac: http://quote.ucsd.edu/blogs/rogblog/2008/01/21/winbugs-on-mac-os-x-finally/
dave
More... http://cddesjardins.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/openbugs-and-winbugs-on-mac-os-x/; http://hlplab.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/using-winbugs-on-an-ppc-osx-laptop-connected-to-a-linux-server/
dave
From the feedback on the newsgroup, it seems that JAGS is better suited for known distributions and composition of known distributions. Its faster / easier writing your own sampler in R for the rest.
Jija
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From the feedback on the newsgroup, it seems that JAGS is better suited for known distributions and composition of known distributions. Its faster / easier writing your own sampler in R for the rest.

Jija