A simple linear regression example. Modified from the Bugs book example 6.1.1 model { for (i in 1:5) { y[i] ~ dnorm(mu[i], tau) mu[i] <- alpha + beta*(x[i] - mean(x[])) } alpha ~ dnorm(0,0.001) beta ~ dnorm(0,0.001) tau ~ dgamma(0.1,0.1) sigma2 <- 1/tau } Data: list(y = c(177,236,285,350,376), x = c(8,15,22,29,36)) Inits: list(alpha=250,beta=0,tau=0.5) Consider example 4.1.1 as first example on logistic regression