JAGS

What is JAGS?

JAGS is Just Another Gibbs Sampler.  It is a program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation  not wholly unlike BUGS.  JAGS was written with three aims in mind:
To this last end, JAGS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. You may freely modify and redistribute it under certain conditions (see the file COPYING for details).

News

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Latest version

The latest release is JAGS 2.1.0.  It was released on May 12 2010.

Downloads

To download files for JAGS 2.0.0 and above, please visit the files page of the mcmc-jags project at sourceforge.  You will find the source for JAGS there as well as binary packages for Mac OS X (Thanks to Bill Northcott) and Windows. 

Binaries for Linux are distributed separately.  There are packages for various RPM-based Linux distributions (Fedora 9, 10; RHEL 5; OpenSuSE 10, 11; SLES 9)  (Thanks to Lars Vilhuber),  Debian and Ubuntu (Thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel).   You can track the current status of the Debian packages here.

Development version

The JAGS source code is hosted on a CVS repository at sourceforge. If you want to keep track of the development version, you can find downloading instructions here.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags

Older releases of JAGS are available here.

This web page is maintained by Martyn Plummer (jags iarc fr) . Last updated 7 June 2010.

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