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I think it's a bit rich of the author to advertise a bullshit- or jargon-free explanation of MCMC and then launch into a litany of definitions and theorems abou
by gaur 10y ago
I think it's a bit rich of the author to advertise a bullshit- or jargon-free explanation of MCMC and then launch into a litany of definitions and theorems about directed graphs.
In fact, when I am looking for "bullshit-free" explanations of statistics concepts, I am emphatically not looking for a resource that reads like lecture notes from a graph theory class.
- mturmon 10y agoIn fact, the graph business is only applicable to the discrete-state case. Continuous-state cases are probably even more applicable, and you need different tools to prove convergence results there.
- argonaut 10y agoSkimming the article, I see barely any mathematical notation, relative to what you would actually see in a lecture on this topic. This seems pretty math sparse as theoretical topics go.
- usgroup 10y agoI'd agree... He defines "bullshit" pretty close to bullshit. I'd imagine it to mean a laymans version of an MCMC explanation. A standard intro to the topic for undergraduates is about equally technical. Maybe a black box explanation would suite dev better. I.e. Use this method to work out the probability density function from some data and these are its caveats and how to spot them.