bridgesampling: Bridge Sampling for Marginal Likelihoods and Bayes Factors

Provides functions for estimating marginal likelihoods, Bayes factors, posterior model probabilities, and normalizing constants in general, via different versions of bridge sampling (Meng & Wong, 1996, <https://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/j6n4/j6n43/j6n43.htm>). Gronau, Singmann, & Wagenmakers (2020) <doi:10.18637/jss.v092.i10>.

Version:	1.2-1
Depends:	R (≥ 3.0.0)
Imports:	mvtnorm, Matrix, Brobdingnag, stringr, coda, parallel, scales, utils, methods
Suggests:	testthat, Rcpp, RcppEigen, R2jags, rjags, runjags, knitr, rmarkdown, R.rsp, BayesFactor, rstan, rstanarm, nimble, MCMCpack, cmdstanr (≥ 0.6.0)
Published:	2025-11-19
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.bridgesampling
Author:	Quentin F. Gronau [aut, cre], Henrik Singmann [aut], Jonathan J. Forster [ctb], Eric-Jan Wagenmakers [ths], The JASP Team [ctb], Jiqiang Guo [ctb], Jonah Gabry [ctb], Ben Goodrich [ctb], Kees Mulder [ctb], Perry de Valpine [ctb], Aki Vehtari [ctb], Giorgio Micaletto [ctb]
Maintainer:	Quentin F. Gronau <Quentin.F.Gronau at gmail.com>
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://github.com/quentingronau/bridgesampling
NeedsCompilation:	no
Additional_repositories:	https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev/
Citation:	bridgesampling citation info
Materials:	NEWS
In views:	Bayesian
CRAN checks:	bridgesampling results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

bridgesampling.html , bridgesampling.pdf

Vignettes:

Hierarchical Normal Example JAGS (source, R code) Hierarchical Normal Example Nimble (source, R code) Hierarchical Normal Example Stan (source, R code) Bayesian One-Sample T-Test Stan (source, R code) bridgesampling: An R Package for Estimating Normalizing Constants (JSS version) (source) bridgesampling: An R Package for Estimating Normalizing Constants (Extended) (source) A Tutorial on Bridge Sampling (source)

Downloads:

Package source:	bridgesampling_1.2-1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: bridgesampling_1.2-1.zip, r-release: bridgesampling_1.2-1.zip, r-oldrel: bridgesampling_1.2-1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): bridgesampling_1.2-1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): bridgesampling_1.2-1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): bridgesampling_1.2-1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): bridgesampling_1.2-1.tgz
Old sources:	bridgesampling archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	BAMBI, bayesDiagnostics, bayesforecast, BayesianTools, BayesTools, brms, hbsaems, hdbayes, hwep, measr, metaBMA, RoBTT, StanMoMo
Reverse suggests:	bayestestR, bmscstan, lorad

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