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  <dc:title>A Stable Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic for Markov Chain Monte Carlo</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package stableGR version 1.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Practitioners of Bayesian statistics often use Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers to sample from a posterior distribution. This package determines whether the MCMC sample is large enough   to yield reliable estimates of the target distribution. In particular, this calculates a Gelman-Rubin convergence diagnostic using stable and consistent estimators of Monte Carlo variance. Additionally, this uses the connection between an MCMC sample's effective sample size and the Gelman-Rubin diagnostic to produce a threshold for terminating MCMC simulation. Finally, this informs the user whether enough samples have been collected  and (if necessary) estimates the number of samples needed for a desired level of accuracy. The theory underlying these methods can be found in "Revisiting the Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic" by Vats and  Knudson (2018) &lt;arXiv:1812:09384&gt;. </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5), mcmcse(&gt;= 1.4-1)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: mvtnorm</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Christina Knudson &lt;drchristinaknudson@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Christina Knudson [aut, cre],
  Dootika Vats [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2022-10-07</dc:date>
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  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stableGR</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.stableGR</dc:identifier>
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