COMPUTING

I anticipate that this course will depend strongly on three software
packages:

  (1) R, a statistical analysis and programming environment (at least
      version 2.10.0; current version is 2.11.1).  
      See http://cran.r-project.org/
      and http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/463/install-R.html

  (2) WinBUGS, a package for doing Bayesian statistics.  
      See http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/
      and http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/463/install-winbugs.html

  (3) Rube, for using WinBUGS from R
      See http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/rube/
      and http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~brian/463/install-rube.html

I strongly encourage you to work in MS Windows, since WinBUGS works
only in Windows.  If you have a mac, this means learning to run
windows on your mac.  Some hints on doing so are provided here.