MacMCMC (v1.6)

State-of-the-art Data Analysis for Mac OS X™

MacMCMC is a free and extremely powerful application for the analysis of data of any kind. It is one half of a two-part project. The other half is a free ebook—a strongly recommended preliminary—available here.

To see MacMCMC in action, consider this famous example from the literature (Arnold and Libby, 1949):

Carbon-14 Dating

Input

Data

Model

Logo

Output

Report

Trace

Marginals

Given the MacMCMC report, any graphing software may be used to prepare a plot showing model versus data.
Note: The blue line in this plot uses mean estimates; the red line shows the prior uncertainty for parameter A.

Principal Features

General

Specifics

Access

MacMCMC (v1.6), signed and notorized, may be downloaded (20.1 Mb, disk image) for free at

MacMCMC
No license or registration required.

Platform Requirements

MacMCMC (v1.6) is written for MacOS 10.11 (El Capitan) or later. (Version 2.0 is in development.)

View the Documentation.

For those who prefer a simpler, frequentist application, Regress+ 2.8 is still available here. Note, however, that frequentist methodology is becoming increasingly outdated.

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This page last updated on 1 January 2024.