Posts by Meenal Jhajharia
Sampler Statistics
- 31 May 2022
When checking for convergence or when debugging a badly behaving sampler, it is often helpful to take a closer look at what the sampler is doing. For this purpose some samplers export statistics for each generated sample.
A Hierarchical model for Rugby prediction
- 19 March 2022
In this example, we’re going to reproduce the first model described in Baio and Blangiardo [2010] using PyMC. Then show how to sample from the posterior predictive to simulate championship outcomes from the scored goals which are the modeled quantities.