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Title: Flexible BUGS-Compatible System for Hierarchical Statistical
Description: Flexible application of algorithms to models specified in the BUGS language. Algorithms can be written in the NIMBLE language and made available to any model.
Author: Perry de Valpine, Christopher Paciorek, Daniel Turek, Cliff Anderson-Bergman, Duncan Temple Lang
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Description: Flexible application of algorithms to models specified in the BUGS
language. Algorithms can be written in the NIMBLE language and made available to
Author: Perry de Valpine, Christopher Paciorek, Daniel Turek, Cliff Anderson-
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title=Main_Page and also the License section on that page.

Description: A system for writing hierarchical statistical models largely compatible with 'BUGS' and 'JAGS', writing nimbleFunctions to operate models and do basic R-style math, and compiling both models and nimbleFunctions via custom-generated C++.  'NIMBLE' includes default methods for MCMC, particle filtering, Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization, and some other tools.  The nimbleFunction system makes it easy to do things like implement new MCMC samplers from R, customize the assignment of samplers to different parts of a model from R, and compile the new samplers automatically via C++ alongside the samplers 'NIMBLE' provides.  'NIMBLE' extends the 'BUGS'/'JAGS' language by making it extensible: New distributions and functions can be added, including as calls to external compiled code.  Although most people think of MCMC as the main goal of the 'BUGS'/'JAGS' language for writing models, one can use 'NIMBLE' for writing arbitrary other kinds of model-generic algorithms as well.  A full User Manual is available at <http://r-nimble.org>.
Author: Perry de Valpine, Christopher Paciorek, Daniel Turek, Cliff Anderson-Bergman, Nick Michaud, Fritz Obermeyer, Duncan Temple Lang, and see AUTHORS file for additional contributors.