Non-standard semiparametric regression via BRugs

We provide several illustrations of bayesian semiparametric regression analyses in the brugs package. brugs facilitates use of the bugs inference engine from the r computing environment and allows analyses to be managed using scripts. the examples are chosen to represent an array of non-standard situations,for which mixed model software is not viable. the situations include: the response variable being outside of the one-parameter exponential family,data subject to missingness,data subject to measurement error and parameters entering the model via an index.