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3 unusual facts about Markov chain Monte Carlo


Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution

A full Bayesian estimation approach has been used with MCMC sampling implemented in WinBugs with non-informative priors for the regression parameters.

Ideological leanings of U.S. Supreme Court justices

Michael A. Bailey used a slightly different Markov chain Monte Carlo Bayesian method to determine ideological leanings and made significantly different scaling assumptions.

Xiao-Li Meng

He has written numerous research papers about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and other statistical methodology.



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