<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Jenni and BaSTA users,<div><br></div><div> We just uploaded to the BaSTA webpage a function to produce similar plots from the one in Colchero and Clark (2012). You can find an explanation on how to load it and use it at the end of the "Application" section of the webpage. Please, let us know if it works well.</div><div><br></div><div> Also, we strongly recommend all users to install BaSTA 1.8 from the webpage, which should be available on CRAN in the next few days. It has important bug fixes.</div><div><br></div><div> Best,</div><div><br></div><div> Fernando<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Mar 28, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Owen Jones <<a href="mailto:jonesor@gmail.com">jonesor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://789/"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Jenni,<div><br></div><div>If you have a basta object called "out", you can access the parameter traces (which are the individual iterations) by calling:</div><div><br></div><div>out$params</div><div><br></div><div>This will be a matrix with several columns (one for each parameter), and lots of rows (one for each iteration).</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 28 Mar 2013, at 13:33, "Graham, Jennifer" <<a href="mailto:jlg208@exeter.ac.uk">jlg208@exeter.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Hey BaSTA users,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">I would like to look at and plot the posterior distributions using the simulation results not just the estimates provided in the coefficient table, similar to the posterior distributions in Fig.5 in Colchero & Clark 2012, which appears to incorporate the asymmetry of the results.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span></span>Does BaSTA save the individual iterations for manual plotting and calculations?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Thanks</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">Jenni</div><div><br><div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><div class="PlainText">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Jennifer Graham<br>PhD Researcher<br>Centre for Ecology and Conservation<br>University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus<br>Tremough<br>Penryn<br>Cornwall<br>TR10 9EZ</div></font></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Basta-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Basta-users@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">Basta-users@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/basta-users">https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/basta-users</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Basta-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Basta-users@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">Basta-users@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a><br>https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/basta-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>