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diff --git a/math/py-pymc/pkg-descr b/math/py-pymc/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3ac658827382 --- /dev/null +++ b/math/py-pymc/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Bayesian estimation, particularly using Markov chain Monte +Carlo (MCMC), is an increasingly relevant approach to +statistical estimation. However, few statistical software +packages implement MCMC samplers, and they are non-trivial + to code by hand. pymc is a python package that implements +the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm as a python class, and is +extremely flexible and applicable to a large suite of problems. +pymc includes methods for summarizing output, plotting, +goodness-of-fit and convergence diagnostics. + +WWW: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymc/ |