- "The previous two chapters hid the inner-mechanics of PyMC, and more generally Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC), from the reader. The reason for including this chapter is three-fold. The first is that any book on Bayesian inference must discuss MCMC. I cannot fight this. Blame the statisticians. Secondly, knowing the process of MCMC gives you insight into whether your algorithm has converged. (Converged to what? We will get to that) Thirdly, we'll understand *why* we are returned thousands of samples from the posterior as a solution, which at first thought can be odd. "
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