JAGS - Just Another Gibbs Sampler (original) (raw)
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 have a cross-platform engine for the BUGS language
- To be extensible, allowing users to write their own functions, distributions and samplers.
- To be a platform for experimentation with ideas in Bayesian modelling JAGS is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. You may freely modify and redistribute it under certain conditions (see the file COPYING for details).
News
See the JAGS NEWS blog for news about the project. If you want to be kept informed of updates to JAGS, then subscribe to the RSS news feed.
Latest version
The latest release is JAGS 4.3.2. It was released on 4 March 2023.
Downloads
To download JAGS, 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 Matt Denwood and the pioneering work of Bill Northcott) and Windows.
Binaries for Linux are distributed separately. There are packages for, Debian and Ubuntu (Thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel). You can track the current status of the Debian packages here.
Daniel Meliza also maintains a port of JAGS on MacPorts.
Development version
The JAGS source code is hosted on a Mercurial 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
Last updated 23 November 2023.