Posts by Meenal Jhajharia

Sampler Statistics

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.

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A Hierarchical model for Rugby prediction

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.

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