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ADMB or AD Model Builder is a free and open source software suite for non-linear statistical modeling. It was created by David Fournier and now being developed by the ADMB Project a creation of the non-profit ADMB Foundation. The AD in AD Model Builder refers to the automatic differentiation capabilities that come from the AUTODIF Library a C++ language extension also created by David Fournier which implements reverse mode automatic differentiation.