README

CODA is a set of tools for analyzing the output of Markov Chain
Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations and diagnosing lack of convergence.

The S original can be downloaded from
http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
and is Copyright (C) MRC Biostatistics Unit 1995. 

The CODA S manual contained these acknowledgements
"The support of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) is
gratefully acknowledged. The work was funded in part by ESRC (UK)
award number H519 25 5023.  We are also grateful to Brad Carlin
for many helpful comments and ideas concerning the CODA software
and manual, and to Steve Brooks for suggesting the graphical
implementations of the Geweke and Gelman & Rubin convergence
diagnostics."

See "CHANGELOG" for information on the changes in the R version.

Martyn Plummer <plummer@iarc.fr> 20/5/1998

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Copying CODA for R

`CODA' is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.

`CODA' is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

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