Software
Free MLwiN software for UK academics
An unrestricted version of the MLwiN software continues to be freely available to UK academics.
e-Stat software system
We are developing an integrated software infrastructure (in collaboration with the sister Digital Social Research nodes). Developments include:
- a suite of model templates that encompasses many of the families of statistical models that can be fitted in MLwiN
- an algebraic processing system that it constructs conditional posterior distributions for many model types
- a code generation routine that creates code for model fitting from the output files of the algebraice processing system
The model templates allow the user to input details of their model and dataset and the system then creates a situation specific estimation engine that runs their model and outputs parameter chains from which parameter estimates can be constructed. See the e-Stat project for further details.