Welcome to the ADMB open source project. All of the ADMB libraries and executable programs for the Windows and Linux operating systems can be downloaded from this website free of charge. Ultimately, the full source code will be available, enabling researchers to contribute enhancements and add-ons.
The ADMB Project began in 2007 when scientists from the University of Hawaii Pelagic Fisheries Research Program and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission created the non-profit ADMB Foundation with the goal of increasing the number of ADMB users by making the software free and open source. The Foundation, in partnership with NOAA Fisheries and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), drafted a proposal to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to acquire the rights to the ADMB software suite. A generous grant from the Moore Foundation to NCEAS enabled an agreement with Otter Research Ltd. to open the ADMB source. Creation of this public download web site is only the first step in making all aspects of ADMB publicly available. Over the next year, a team of software developers will improve documentation of the computer code with the goal of making ADMB an open source enterprise.
The ADMB software suite is an environment for non-linear statistical modeling enabling rapid model development, numerical stability, fast and efficient computation, and high accuracy parameter estimates. ADModel Builder is a high level language built around the AUTODIF Library, a C++ language extension which transparently implements reverse mode automatic differentiation. A closely related software package, ADMB-RE, implements random effects in non-linear models.
The Mission of the ADMB-Project is to promote wider application of ADMB to practical problems and to assist current ADMB users to become more proficient.
ADModel Builder, ADMB-RE and AUTODIF were created by David Fournier of Otter Research Ltd.
ADMB Available for Public Download
