Model { for (i in 1:N) { MMSE[i] ~ dbeta(alpha[i],beta[i]) alpha[i] <- mu[i]*phi beta[i] <- phi*(1-mu[i]) mu[i] <- ilogit(b0+b1*Age[i]+b2*MdV[i]+b3*AD[i]+b4*Anx[i]) } # priors b0 ~ dnorm(0,0.001) b1 ~ dnorm(0,0.001) b2 ~ dnorm(0,0.001) b3 ~ dnorm(0,0.001) b4 ~ dnorm(0,0.001) phi ~ dunif(0,10) #phi ~ dgamma(0.001,0.0001) } # initials list(b0=1,b1=-0.1,b2=0.5,b3=0.5,b4=0.5,phi=3) list(b0=2,b1=-0.5,b2=-0.5,b3=-0.5,b4=-0.5,phi=5)