<s>
LaplacesDemon	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
statistical	B-Algorithm
package	I-Algorithm
that	O
is	O
intended	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
complete	O
environment	O
for	O
Bayesian	O
inference	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LaplacesDemon	B-Application
has	O
been	O
used	O
in	O
numerous	O
fields	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
numerical	O
approximation	O
families	O
of	O
algorithms	O
include	O
Laplace	O
's	O
method	O
(	O
Laplace	O
approximation	O
)	O
,	O
numerical	B-Algorithm
integration	I-Algorithm
(	O
iterative	O
quadrature	O
)	O
,	O
Markov	B-General_Concept
chain	I-General_Concept
Monte	I-General_Concept
Carlo	I-General_Concept
(	O
MCMC	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
variational	O
Bayesian	O
methods	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
base	O
package	O
,	O
LaplacesDemon	B-Application
,	O
is	O
written	O
entirely	O
in	O
the	O
R	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
and	O
is	O
largely	O
self-contained	O
,	O
though	O
it	O
does	O
require	O
the	O
parallel	O
package	O
for	O
high	O
performance	O
computing	O
via	O
parallelism	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Big	B-Application
data	I-Application
is	O
also	O
supported	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
extension	O
package	O
called	O
LaplacesDemonCpp	O
is	O
in	O
development	O
to	O
provide	O
C++	B-Language
functionality	O
.	O
</s>
