nimble

MCMC, Particle Filtering, and Programmable Hierarchical Modeling

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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, Laplace Approximation, 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 https://r-nimble.org.


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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 3,223 times in the last 30 days. That's enough downloads to impress a room full of undergrads. A commendable achievement indeed. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 124 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 36,982 times in the last 365 days. That's enough downloads to make it mildly famous in niche technical communities. A badge of honor! The day with the most downloads was Nov 27, 2024 with 330 downloads.

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