How can I do hierarchical centering in WinBUGS for longitudinal data analysis with a random intercept and slope?

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Thao Mai Phuong Tran

I finally figure out how to do that based on the paper of Ziv Skhedy and a paper related to Multilevel Modeling in WinBUGS. They are free on the internet.

Link:

1. https://www.google.be/url?http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~fdominic/teaching/bio656/labs/labs08/lab9.WinBUGS.pdf

2. http://www.bayes-pharma.org/Presentation_PDF/12_ZivShkedy-BAYES2010SAS.pdf

Biche Osong

Thanks Thao i have checked but still could not figure out how to do it.