<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear BaSTA users,<div><br></div><div> BaSTA 1.4 can be installed from R-forge and, in the next few days, from CRAN. This new version includes the following updates: <br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Update jump routine for multiple simulations runs before the main analysis, this improves convergence and consistency between multiple simulations.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Improved convergence by fixing several bugs in the MCMC routine.<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Fixed reporting of DIC values with function summary().<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Function summary() ouputs the basic information, which can be stored instead of the main output. This reduces storage problems due to the size of the output.</div><div><br></div><div> We also updated the BaSTA webpage (<a href="http://basta.r-forge.r-project.org/">http://basta.r-forge.r-project.org/</a>). </div><div><br></div><div> Best,</div><div><br></div><div> Fernando</div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">______________________________________________</div><div><div> </div><div>Fernando Colchero</div><div><br></div><div>Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research</div><div>Konrad Zuse Str. 1, 18057, Rostock, Germany</div><div>Tel: +49 (0) 381 2081 113</div><div>Fax: +49 (0) 381 2081 413</div><div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:Colchero@demogr.mpg.de">Colchero@demogr.mpg.de</a></div><div>______________________________________________</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>
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