A Guide to General-Purpose Approximate Bayesian Computation Software

06/21/2018

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by   Athanasios Kousathanas, et al.

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This Chapter, "A Guide to General-Purpose ABC Software", is to appear in the forthcoming Handbook of Approximate Bayesian Computation (2018). We present general-purpose software to perform Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) as implemented in the R-packages abc and EasyABC and the c++ program ABCtoolbox. With simple toy models we demonstrate how to perform parameter inference, model selection, validation and optimal choice of summary statistics. We demonstrate how to combine ABC with Markov Chain Monte Carlo and describe a realistic population genetics application.