Chapter 5 Graphical user interface

This chapter introduces our graphical user interface (GUI) for conducting Bayesian regression analysis in a user-friendly environment that requires no programming skills, using a simple drag-and-drop design. The GUI is implemented as an interactive web application built with shiny (Chang 2018) and integrates packages such as MCMCpack (A. D. Martin, Quinn, and Park 2018) and bayesm (P. Rossi 2017) within the R software environment (R Core Team 2023). It is primarily designed for teaching and applied purposes at the introductory level. In the subsequent chapters of the second part of this book, we present several applications that illustrate the potential of our GUI for applied researchers and practitioners.

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