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MCMC for the Cauchy distribution
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Figure 5.22

Markov chain monte carlo (MCMC) estimates of the posterior pdf for parameters
describing the Cauchy distribution. The data are the same as those used in
figure 5.10: the dashed curves in the top-right panel show the results of
direct computation on a regular grid from that diagram. The solid curves are
the corresponding MCMC estimates using 10,000 sample points. The left and the
bottom panels show marginalized distributions.



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