model { p[1:numPrey] ~ ddirch(alpha[]); # these are weights for means for(i in 1:numPrey) { p2[i] <- p[i]*p[i]; # these are weights for variances } # for each isotope, calculate the predicted mixtures for(i in 1:numIsotopes) { mix.mu[i] <- inprod(u[,i],p[]); mix.var[i] <- inprod(vars[,i],p2[]); mix.totalVar[i] <- mix.var[i]; mix.prcsn[i] <- 1/(mix.totalVar[i]); } # This section does the likelihood / posterior, looping over N data points for(i in 1:N) { for(j in 1:numIsotopes) { X[i,j] ~ dnorm(mix.mu[j], mix.prcsn[j]); } } }