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Greetings -

Gary has just posted a new build of MARK. You can download it either from Gary's site, or from the following mirror:

http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/download/

In the new build...

115. Modifications to the MCMC estimation code have been made: 1) the
order of the beta parameters is randomized on each Markov chain iteration;
2) -2log likelihood is now stored and reported in the output, including the
MCMC.BIN file, 3) the deviance information criterion (DIC) is reported in
the output; 4) a "tuning" phase has been included prior to the burn-in phase
to adjust the standard deviation of the proposal distribution; 5) the
standard deviation of the proposal distribution is no longer changed during
the iterations where the parameter values are sampled; and 5) values of the
SAS macro variables to process the MCMC.BIN file are printed at the bottom
of the MCMC output, and this output block can be copied and pasted into the
SAS code to process the MCMC.BIN file.

116. A problem with reading encounter history file records longer than
256 characters was fixed. Encounter history records can now be up to 2048
characters.