Announcing the latest version (6.0.1) of the GNU MCSim simulation software (see http://www.gnu.org/software/mcsim for info).
GNU MCSim is a simulation package which allows you to design your own models (eventually dynamic, via ODEs) and to perform simple simulations, Monte Carlo stochastic simulations, Bayesian inference through Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations, or formally optimize experimental designs. Version 6.0.1 fixes minor problems of version 6.0.0. Version 6.0.0 brought several major extensions: The Jacobian matrix of your model’s derivatives can be used by the Lsodes integrator instead of numerical differentiation. The Sundials library Cvodes integrator can be called in a Integrate specification. The vector notation can now be used in input simulation files. If you use the GNU Scientific Library (recommended), the very long-period “Mersenne twister” random number generator is used. Two new distributions, Normal_cv and TruncNormal_cv, can be used to draw normal random variates with specified mean and coefficient of variation. GNU MCSim is GNU software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The source code (tar.gz archive) is available on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mcsim/ or ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mcsim/ Frederic Bois fb...@member.fsf.org -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
