MCMC CFA talk and update

As promised, here is my talk on how to run a Markov Chain Monte Carlo confirmatory factor analysis model in JAGS. Click here to download the talk. The talk is pretty complete. It provides a brief background on Bayesian, MCMC, CFA, and then some JAGS code. It also includes my tested model (using graphviz).

Feel free to leave comments on the talk.

This summer I am in the process of going through and reading Gelman’s Bayesian textbook. Last summer I worked through Bradley Carlin’s book and a few other books. I plan to adapt his code, especially the hierarchical modeling code, from BUGS to JAGS and I may post it here.

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