Mary Kathryn Cowles	University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
			<kcowles@stat.uiowa.edu>
Nicky Best 		Imperial college, London, UK
			<n.best@ic.ac.uk>
Karen Vines		Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
			<S.K.Vines@open.ac.uk> 
Martyn Plummer		International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon,				France
			<plummer@iarc.fr>

The function "gelman.diag" is based on the "itsim" function 
contributed to the Statlib archive by Andrew Gelman 
<gelman@wald.stat.columbia.edu>.

The function "raftery.diag" is based on the "gibbsit" function
contributed to the Statlib archive by Steven Lewis
<slewis@stat.washington.edu>.

CODA was conceived and motivated by Mary Kathryn Cowles, who developed
the original program as part of here PhD thesis concerning practical
issues in implementing the Gibbs sampler.  It was modified by Nicky Best
to provide software suitable for general release, including contributions
by Karen Vines.  Martyn Plummer ported CODA to R and modified the code
so that the user is not bound by the menu-driven interface. All authors,
and the MRC Biostatistic Unit, have given permission for the license
terms to be changed to GPL.

