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BITE: Bayesian Intensity EstimatorReference Manual⁄Tommi Harkanen˜ ˜March 24, 2004cThe BITE software and this documentation are ° Copyright 2000 byTommi Harkanen, Rolf Nevanlinna Institute. All rights reserved. Repro-˜ ˜ductions for personal use are allowed. See also flle copyright.txt. Thesoftware and the documentation are provided without warranty of any kind.⁄Rolf Nevanlinna Institute, P.O.B. 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, E-mail:Tommi.Harkanen@RNI.helsinki.fi, tel. +358-9-191 22784, FAX +358-9-191 22779.1Contents1 Introduction 52 Terminology 62.1 Filtering and censoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.2 Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.3 Step functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.4 Covariates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.5 Likelihood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Installation and description of commands 123.1 Installation and running BITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.2 Basic elements of the BITE syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.3 Setting simulation limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.4 Loading data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.5 Setting prior variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...