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jsalvatier comments on Review article on Bayesian inference in physics - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: dvasya 19 September 2011 11:45PM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 20 September 2011 06:25:09PM 0 points [-]

Glad to see that Hamiltonian / Hybrid Monte Carlo is gaining more interest, though I guess it's supposed to have had more interest in physics than statistics for a while. Given how much better these algorithms scale, I think they should get a lot more attention. The description of Parallel tempering was pretty good, I had heard it described before but didn't get it. I get a sense for why it's exciting to people. The section on Reversible Jump MCMC made me realize I don't understand model selection problems very well at all.