nerds .......I've been reminded in the past few weeks about some of the qualities of nerds for example I happened upon a
Creative Reenactment type battle on a university lawn which was like a stars wars kid (tm) type duel amongst nerds, now I'm not saying that was cool;
But on the "cool" I have to give a shout out to a statistics expert who CLAIMS THE RAPPER ALIAS "MCMC" which I had to look up online because I couldn't find my class notes.
"Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods (which include random walk Monte Carlo methods), are a class of algorithms for sampling from probability distributions based on constructing a Markov chain that has the desired distribution as its equilibrium distribution. The state of the chain after a large number of steps is then used as a sample from the desired distribution. The quality of the sample improves as a function of the number of steps"
So I guess MCMC could bust out all those skills kinda like a certain MC formerly known as "ALLAH MATHEMATICS" if you know what I'm sayin (kojak)
This MCMC thinks that MCMC is the hotness!! I did a bunch of stuff with those crazy models (on contingency table spaces for chromosome translocations, since I know you care) as part of my undergrad research. All praise to Markov and Metropolis!
ReplyDeleteYo this is some high level mathematix I can't hang with. Although I would appreciate a personal tutorial. and go: Tutorial
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