Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling


Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling is a statistical software for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. It was developed by David Spiegelhalter at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge in 1989 and released as free software in 1991.
The BUGS project has evolved through four main versions: ClassicBUGS, WinBUGS, OpenBUGS and . MultiBUGS is built on the existing algorithms and tools in OpenBUGS and WinBUGS, which are no longer developed, and implements parallelization to speed up computation. Several R packages are available, acts as an interface to MultiBUGS, while is an extension of the BUGS language.
Alternative implementations of the BUGS language include JAGS and Stan.