One reason I love Bayesian software (such as JAGS, etc.) is for its ability to express novel models that aren’t prepackaged in canned stats packages. In some recent research, I had the opportunity to create a novel trend model and estimate its parameters in JAGS. 

We had data as graphed in Fig. 1, and I had to think of a model to describe the trends

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