where to begin?🤔
You may ask yourself that when initializing a #MCMC sampler.
A first idea may be to use the mean of the data as starting point - that's a bad idea though! Let @aseyboldt explain why in this piece from episode 74 🧑‍🏫
#BayesianStats

we're kicking the New Year off with a very #Bayesian episode 🎆
#NUTS 🌰sampling, a new #ZeroSumNormal #distribution, #PyMC, the Bayesian workflow and more is all covered in episode 74 with @aseyboldt @pymc_devs #BayesianStats #modelling

https://learnbayesstats.com/episode/74-optimizing-nuts-developing-zerosumnormal-distribution-adrian-seyboldt/