############# # Here is WinBUGS code for Poisson/gamma hierarchical model # (Carlin and Louis, 2008, Example 3.6) ############# model { for (i in 1:k) { theta[i] ~ dgamma(alpha,beta) lambda[i] <- theta[i]*t[i] Y[i] ~ dpois(lambda[i]) } alpha ~ dexp(1.0) beta ~ dgamma(0.1, 1.0) } # DATA: list(k = 10, Y = c(5, 1, 5, 14, 3, 19, 1, 1, 4, 22), t = c(94.320, 15.72, 62.88, 125.76, 5.24, 31.44, 1.048, 1.048, 2.096, 10.48)) # INITIAL VALUES: list(theta=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1), alpha=1, beta=1)