I eschewed this method, opting to follow the extremely helpful tutorial by Dr. This means you have to have access to download the windows operating system, and also enough computing power so that running two OS at the same time doesn't bog down your machine. Parallels or VirtualBox) which essential duplicates a windows desktop on your Mac.
Initially, I ran OpenBUGS on a virtual machine (ie. If you have MacOSX, I am aware of 2 options.
If you have a Windows computer, you should be able to download the latest version, and install without a problem. For those who prefer to do their coding in R, the package R2OpenBUGS (developed by Sturtz, Ligges & Gelman, 2005) will be essential.īut really, before the software you must determine how you will be running OpenBUGS on your machine. OpenBUGS allows the user to customize everything from the data input, to the model's parameters and provides helpful graphical output. However, this statistical methodology has been receiving increased focus in ecology, and I thought it might be helpful to compile a few resources that have been extremely helpful with this branch of stats.įirst-the software. In the Lockwood lab at Rutgers University, we utilize OpenBUGS as the software for all of our Bayesian statistics. Bayesian statistics have been in use since the 18th century.
