Dear Bugs list, The WinBUGS user manual notes that "the full joint distribution of all quantities V has a simple factorisation in terms of the conditional distribution p(v | parents[v]) of each node given its parents." Is there any way of checking this factorisation? I assume it is stored in internal code that Bugs creates based on the model specification--so is it possible to look this up? How about in OpenBUGS? Thanks for your help, Peter -- Peter B. Adler, PhD Dept. Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 tel: (805) 893-7364 ------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is for discussion of modelling issues and the BUGS software. For help with crashes and error messages, first mail [log in to unmask] To mail the BUGS list, mail to [log in to unmask] Before mailing, please check the archive at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bugs.html Please do not mail attachments to the list. To leave the BUGS list, send LEAVE BUGS to [log in to unmask] If this fails, mail [log in to unmask], NOT the whole list