[R] WinBUGS posterior samples (via R2WinBUGS)?

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Anny Huang <annylhuang <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I did some analysis using package R2WinBUGS to call WinBUGS. I set the
> iterations to 50000 (fairly a large number, I think), but after the program
> was done,  the effective posterior samples contained only 7 draws.  I don't
> know why.

This indicates that you have a mixing problem! I guess that you do not have 
enough information to retrieve the post. dist. of that parameter. You might
try to reconsider your model or reparametrize it.

gg