Usually you can do the predictions in JAGS. Below is a regression example with FEV (something to do with lung capacity) as the dependent variable and age and smoking indicator as predictors. FEV20s and FEV20ns are the predicted FEV values for a 20 year old smoker and a 20 year old non-smoker. model { for(i in 1:n){ FEV[i] ~ dnorm(mu[i],tau) mu[i] <- beta[1] + beta[2]*Age[i] + beta[3]*Smoke[i] + beta[4]*Age[i]*Smoke[i] } #priors beta[1] ~ dnorm(0,0.001) beta[2] ~ dnorm(0,0.001) beta[3] ~ dnorm(0,0.001) beta[4] ~ dnorm(0,0.001) tau ~ dgamma(0.001,0.001) sigma<-1/sqrt(tau) ## Predict the FEV for a 20 year old smoker and for a 20 year old nonsmoker mu20s <- beta[1] + (beta[2]+beta[4])*20 + beta[3] mu20ns <- beta[1] + beta[2]*20 FEV20s ~ dnorm(mu20s,tau) FEV20ns ~ dnorm(mu20ns,tau) }