Articles by Chris Paciorek

Version 0.12.2 of NIMBLE released, including an important bug fix for some models using Bayesian nonparametrics with the dCRP distribution

March 4, 2022 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.12.2 is a bug fix release. In particular, this release fixes ...
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NIMBLE in-person short course, June 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal

March 2, 2022 | Chris Paciorek

We’ll be holding a in-person training workshop on NIMBLE, June 1-3, 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal, sponsored by the Centro de Estatística e Aplicações at the Universidade Lisboa (CEAUL). NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (...
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NIMBLE online tutorial, November 18, 2021

October 20, 2021 | Chris Paciorek

We’ll be giving a two-hour tutorial on NIMBLE, sponsored by the environmental Bayes (enviBayes) section of ISBA (The International Society for Bayesian Analysis), on Thursday November 18, from 11 am to 1 pm US Eastern time. NIMBLE (r-nimble.org) is a system for fitting and programming with hierarchical models in R that ...
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Version 0.12.1 of NIMBLE released

October 13, 2021 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.12.1, in combination with version 0.12.0 (which was released just last week), ...
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Version 0.11.1 of NIMBLE released

June 2, 2021 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.11.1 is a bug fix release, fixing a bug that was ...
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Version 0.11.0 of NIMBLE released

April 24, 2021 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.11.0 provides a variety of new functionality, improved error trapping, and ...
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NIMBLE virtual short course, May 26-28

March 5, 2021 | Chris Paciorek

We’ll be holding a virtual training workshop on NIMBLE, May 26-28, from 8 am to 1 pm US Pacific (California) time each day. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). The workshop will ...
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Version 0.10.1 of NIMBLE released

November 30, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). We’ve released version 0.10.1.  Version 0.10.1 is primarily a bug fix release: –  ...
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Version 0.10.0 of NIMBLE released

October 14, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.10.0 provides new features, improvements in speed of building models and ...
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New NIMBLE cheatsheat available

June 14, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

We have prepared a cheatsheet that summarizes NIMBLE’s functionality and syntax in a two-page format that follows the RStudio collection of cheatsheets. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Please see ...
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Version 0.9.1 of NIMBLE released

May 27, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.9.1 is primarily a bug fix release but also provides some ...
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nimbleEcology: custom NIMBLE distributions for ecologists

April 18, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

Prepared by Ben Goldstein. What is nimbleEcology? nimbleEcology is an auxiliary nimble package for ecologists. nimbleEcology contains a set of distributions corresponding to some common ecological models. When the package is loaded, these distributions are registered to NIMBLE and can be used directly in models. nimbleEcology contains distributions often used ...
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NIMBLE short course at March ENAR meeting in Nashville

January 4, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

We’ll be holding a half-day short course on NIMBLE on March 22 at the ENAR meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The annual ENAR meeting is a major biostatistics conference, sponsored by the eastern North American region of the International Biometric Society. The short course will focus on usage of NIMBLE in ...
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Version 0.9.0 of NIMBLE released

December 21, 2019 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC and SMC). Version 0.9.0 provides some new features as well as providing a variety ...
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