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I'm a statistics lecturer at Newcastle University, UK (Uni homepage). My research interests are parallel computing, Bayesian statistics and stochastic kinetic models.

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As a matter of interest - how big? Sample size, range of data.
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Yes, I quite liked the King book. I've never read the WinBUGS book.
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@Tomas "in anger" == "a real problem". Oh, my comment should say "never needed to use"
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@Tomas The book uses RJMCMC for model choice. I found the description quite nice. I've needed to use RJMCMC in anger though.
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@Tomas Someone edited my answer and changed R to WinBUGS. From what I recall, the book provides R code.
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