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Welcome to the NIMBLE blog! Here you’ll find announcements about new releases, tutorials, and insights into using NIMBLE for your statistical computing needs.

Using nimbleQuad for maximum likelihood estimation and deterministic posterior approximation

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The new nimbleQuad package provides quadrature-based inference methods that use Laplace and Adaptive Gauss-Hermite Quadrature (AGHQ) approximation. It has two main components:
Jan 29, 2026
Paul van Dam-Bates and Christopher Paciorek
 

Using derived quantities in NIMBLE’s MCMC system

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NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC…
Jan 27, 2026
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.4.0 of NIMBLE released, plus new quadrature-based functionality in nimbleQuad package

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Jan 14, 2026
NIMBLE Development Team
 

announcing the nimbleMacros package and the use of macros in NIMBLE models

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Recent versions of NIMBLE now include the ability to use macros in models. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially…
Mar 19, 2025
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.3.0 of NIMBLE released

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Dec 21, 2024
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.2.1 of NIMBLE released

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Jul 31, 2024
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.2.0 of NIMBLE released

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Jun 14, 2024
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.1.0 of NIMBLE released

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Feb 4, 2024
NIMBLE Development Team
 

nimbleHMC version 0.2.0 released, providing improved HMC performance

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nimbleHMC provides Hamiltonian Monte Carlo samplers for use with NIMBLE, in particular NUTS samplers. NIMBLE’s HMC samplers can be flexibly assigned to a subset of model…
Sep 20, 2023
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.0.1 of NIMBLE released, fixing a bug in version 1.0.0 affecting certain models

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Jun 21, 2023
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 1.0.0 of NIMBLE released, providing automatic differentiation, Laplace approximation, and HMC sampling

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
May 31, 2023
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 0.13.1 of NIMBLE released

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. This version is purely a bug fix release that fixes a bug introduced in our new handling of…
Dec 19, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Bug in newly-released version 0.13.0 affecting MCMC for models with predictive nodes

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We recently released version 0.13.0, which has some improvements in how we handle predictive nodes in NIMBLE’s MCMC engine.
Dec 8, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 0.13.0 of NIMBLE released

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Nov 29, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

We’re looking for a programmer

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The NIMBLE project anticipates having some funding for a part-time programmer to implement statistical algorithms and make improvements in nimble’s core code. Examples may…
Oct 7, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

NIMBLE virtual short course, January 4-6, 2023

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We’ll be holding a virtual training workshop on NIMBLE, January 4-6, 2023 from 8 am to 1 pm US Pacific (California) time each day. NIMBLE is a system for building and…
Sep 8, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Beta version of NIMBLE with automatic differentiation, including HMC sampling and Laplace approximation

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We’re excited to announce that NIMBLE now supports automatic differentiation (AD), also known as algorithmic differentiation, in a beta version available on our website. In…
Jul 15, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

Version 0.12.2 of NIMBLE released, including an important bug fix for some models using Bayesian nonparametrics with the dCRP distribution

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We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for…
Mar 4, 2022
NIMBLE Development Team
 

NIMBLE in-person short course, June 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal

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We’ll be holding a in-person training workshop on NIMBLE, June 1-3, 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal, sponsored by the Centro de Estatística e Aplicações at the Universidade Lisboa…
Mar 2, 2022
Chris Paciorek
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