In published work that uses or mentions NIMBLE, please cite the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics article. In work that uses NIMBLE, please also cite the R package for the specific version used. To help us track usage to justify funding support for NIMBLE, please include the DOI in the citation.

de Valpine P, Turek D, Paciorek C, Anderson-Bergman C, Temple Lang D, Bodik R (2017). “Programming with models: writing statistical algorithms for general model structures with NIMBLE.” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 26, 403-413. doi:10.1080/10618600.2016.1172487.

de Valpine P, Paciorek C, Turek D, Michaud N, Anderson-Bergman C, Obermeyer F, Wehrhahn Cortes C, Rodrìguez A, Temple Lang D, Paganin S (2026). NIMBLE: MCMC, Particle Filtering, and Programmable Hierarchical Modeling. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1211190. R package version 1.4.2, https://cran.r-project.org/package=nimble.

de Valpine P, Paciorek C, Turek D, Michaud N, Anderson-Bergman C, Obermeyer F, Wehrhahn Cortes C, Rodrìguez A, Temple Lang D, Paganin S (2026). NIMBLE User Manual. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1211190. R package manual version 1.4.2, https://r-nimble.org.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {Programming with models: writing statistical algorithms
      for general model structures with {NIMBLE}},
    journal = {Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics},
    volume = {26},
    issue = {2},
    pages = {403-413},
    year = {2017},
    author = {Perry {de Valpine} and Daniel Turek and Christopher
      Paciorek and Cliff Anderson-Bergman and Duncan {Temple Lang} and
      Ras Bodik},
    doi = {10.1080/10618600.2016.1172487},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {{NIMBLE}: {MCMC}, Particle Filtering, and Programmable
      Hierarchical Modeling},
    author = {Perry {de Valpine} and Christopher Paciorek and Daniel
      Turek and Nick Michaud and Cliff Anderson-Bergman and Fritz
      Obermeyer and Claudia {Wehrhahn Cortes} and Abel Rodrìguez and
      Duncan {Temple Lang} and Sally Paganin},
    url = {https://cran.r-project.org/package=nimble},
    year = {2026},
    version = {1.4.2},
    note = {{R} package version 1.4.2},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1211190},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {{NIMBLE} User Manual},
    author = {Perry {de Valpine} and Christopher Paciorek and Daniel
      Turek and Nick Michaud and Cliff Anderson-Bergman and Fritz
      Obermeyer and Claudia {Wehrhahn Cortes} and Abel Rodrìguez and
      Duncan {Temple Lang} and Sally Paganin},
    url = {https://r-nimble.org},
    year = {2026},
    version = {1.4.2},
    note = {{R} package manual version 1.4.2},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1211190},
  }