Brad Carlin's Software Page


The programs on this page are associated with the published papers and research reports listed. Please see the data/software pages for the Bayesian (Carlin and Louis) book and the spatial (Banerjee, Carlin and Gelfand) book, as well as Brad's teaching page and Sudipto Banerjee's software page for more information!

Also of potential interest is spBayes, a new R package for the analysis of point-level (geostatistical) spatial hierarchical models. The package currently handles normal observations in both univariate and multivariate settings; spatiotemporal and non-normal (e.g., logistic) models are on the way!


Zhao, L., Hanson, T., and Carlin, B.P. (2007), ``Mixtures of Polya trees for flexible spatial frailty survival modeling," Research Report 2006--018, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota.

Note that all downloads are currently set up to be saved in a directory named F:/PostOnWeb/. These programs were written by Ms. Luping Zhao during 2006-7 for Bayesian MPT model estimation, prediction, and frailty mapping.

Hobbs, B.P. and Carlin, B.P. (2007), ``Practical Bayesian design and analysis for drug and device clinical trials," Research Report 2007--003, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota.

These programs were written to perform fully Bayesian design (i.e., to do sample size calculations) for both drug and medical device clinical trials using a binomial (alive/dead) response model, as well as for both parametric (Weibull) and nonparametric (Cox) proportional hazards survival models.

Liang, S., Banerjee, S., Bushhouse, S., Finley, A. and Carlin, B.P. (2006), ``Hierarchical multiresolution approaches for dense point-level breast cancer treatment data," Research Report 2006--012, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota.

These programs were written by Mr. Shengde Liang during 2006 to perform multiscale hierarchical modeling of very large geostatistical (point level) datasets.

Ma, H. and Carlin, B.P. (2006), ``Bayesian multivariate areal wombling for multiple disease boundary analysis," to appear Bayesian Analysis.

These programs were written by Ms. Haijun Ma, 12/22/06, to perform multivariate areal smoothing and boundary analysis (wombling). Both file should be opened in WinBUGS 1.4.

He, Y., Hodges, J.S., and Carlin, B.P. (2006), Reconsidering the variance parameterization in multiple precision models," to appear Bayesian Analysis.

These programs were written by Yi He during 2006, and edited by James Hodges.

Ma, H., Carlin, B.P., and Banerjee, S. (2006), ``Hierarchical and joint site-edge methods for Medicare hospice service region boundary analysis," Research Report 2006--010, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota.

These programs were written by Ms. Haijun Ma, 5/24/06, to perform areal smoothing and boundary analysis (wombling) for arbitrary areal maps (including those created from .shp files, using ArcView 8.x or earlier)

Ma, H., Virnig, B., and Carlin, B.P. (2005), ``Spatial methods in geographic administrative data analysis," Italian Journal of Public Health, 3, 94-104.

These programs were written by Ms. Haijun Ma, 8/15/05, to perform areal smoothing and boundary analysis (wombling) for the Minnesota county map. The approach uses WinBUGS 1.4, followed by R.

Lu, H., Reilly, C.S., Banerjee, S., and Carlin, B.P. (2007), ``Bayesian areal wombling via adjacency modeling," to appear Environmental and Ecological Statistics.


Lu, H. and Carlin, B.P. (2005), ``Bayesian areal wombling for geographical boundary analysis," Geographical Analysis, 37, 265--285.


Lu, H., Hodges, J., and Carlin, B.P. (2006), ``Measuring the complexity of generalized linear hierarchical models," to appear Canadian Journal of Statistics.


Jin, X., Carlin, B.P., and Banerjee, S. (2005), ``Generalized Hierarchical Multivariate CAR Models for Areal Data," Biometrics, 61, 950--961.


Jin, X. and Carlin, B.P. (2005), ``Multivariate parametric spatiotemporal models for county level breast cancer survival data,'' Lifetime Data Analysis, 11, 5--27.


Guo, X. and Carlin, B.P. (2004), ``Separate and Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Event Time Data Using Standard Computer Packages," The American Statistician, 58, 16--24.


Short, M., Carlin, B.P., and Bushhouse, S. (2002), ``Using hierarchical spatial models for cancer control planning in Minnesota (United States),'' Cancer Causes and Control, 13, 903--916.


Finally, here are some programs for performing spatial frailty analysis in the GeoBUGS software package:


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