new blog posts on MCMC derived quantities and on quadrature-based methods in NIMBLE

[Chris Paciorek]

Following on our announcement of the release of nimble 1.4.0 and the new nimbleQuad package, we've made a couple blog posts that highlight NIMBLE's new functionality.

This blog post on derived quantities gives an overview of how to specify derived quantities to calculate or record additional quantities of interest (e.g., log probabilities) during the iterations of an MCMC.

This blog post on nimbleQuad gives an overview of functionality in the new nimbleQuad package, in particular a new INLA-like deterministic posterior approximation, plus the Laplace approximation methods that used to be in the nimble package itself.

-Chris (for the NIMBLE Development Team)