Re: st: Are you a Bayesians?

[Gregor Franz <gfranz@uci.edu>]

I use matlab. I think it would be hard to incorporate anything but 
mostly trivial cases for conjugate priors into a packaged program like 
stata. That's the problem with subjective beliefs, you can't generalize 
them.

Greg

Rafal Raciborski wrote:

> i use mathematica for bayesian.
> rafal
>
> Quoting "Benjamin M. Craig, Ph.D." <craig@pharmacy.arizona.edu>:
>
> > If you are a Bayesian using stata, please respond with raised voice.
> >
> > Most of my work is frequentist in nature, but I apply Bayesian 
> > techniques for some of my more onerous problems. As was mentioned in 
> > the fall, "Stata is not much of a vehicle for doing Bayesian things." 
> > Should this change?
> >
> > The paucity of interest in Bayesian techniques, or its appearance, 
> > may represent an area of development for stata. Bayesians, if you are 
> > out there, I personally would like to how you manage. Maybe stata and 
> > its users will develop greater tools if we can show that there is a 
> > market.
> >
> > Ben
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