Dear Bugsers,
The Statistical Computing Section of the RSS is also arranging a
meeting on BUGS related stuff.
The meeting will be held on Wed Jan 20, 1999, at Errol Street.
The draft schedule is:
Speaker Approximate Topic
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2.00pm Karen Vines Intro to Gibbs Sampling/MCMC
2.45pm David Spiegelhalter WinBUGS
3.30pm Tea
4.00pm Peter Green Exact Simulation
I see this meeting as complementary to the one Phil Woodward is
organising, in that it is an overview rather than a workshop.
If you are a user of Gibbs Sampling/MCMC and have not come across exact
simulation yet, consider going; exact simulation offers the
***potential*** to guarantee that convergence occurs.
The meeting will be advertised in the usual places (RSS meeting cards,
allstat, here), i.e., I don't have any other details, but further
details will be circulated as they become available.
Best wishes to you all,
Paul Taylor.
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