Inference for Bugs model at "c:/bugsR/schools.txt" 3 chains, each with 1000 iterations (first 500 discarded) nsims = 1500 iterations saved mean sd 2.5% 25% 50% 75% 97.5% Rhat n.eff theta[1] 11.0 8.5 -2.1 5.4 9.9 15.2 30.5 1.0 76 theta[2] 7.4 6.2 -5.0 3.7 7.1 11.4 20.1 1.0 290 theta[3] 5.5 7.8 -12.3 1.5 6.1 10.1 19.9 1.0 1400 theta[4] 7.4 6.6 -5.7 3.7 7.2 11.3 21.2 1.0 170 theta[5] 4.6 6.4 -9.6 0.5 5.4 8.8 16.0 1.0 390 theta[6] 5.6 6.6 -8.0 1.4 6.0 10.1 18.1 1.0 430 theta[7] 10.0 6.7 -2.1 5.6 9.4 14.0 25.0 1.0 73 theta[8] 8.0 7.8 -6.5 3.8 7.4 12.1 24.9 1.0 140 mu.theta 7.5 5.4 -2.8 4.3 7.3 10.7 19.0 1.0 160 sigma.theta 6.5 5.7 0.2 2.7 4.9 9.1 21.4 1.1 23 deviance 60.3 2.2 56.9 58.9 59.8 61.1 66.0 1.0 92 pD = 2.5 and DIC = 62.7 (using the rule, pD = var(deviance)/2) For each parameter, n.eff is a crude measure of effective sample size, and Rhat is the potential scale reduction factor (at convergence, Rhat=1). DIC is an estimate of expected predictive error (lower deviance is better). >