Effective sample size

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2025-11-27

Summary:

This post is by Aki Richard McElreath had a bsky post with a MCMC convergence diagnostic plot with one axis label saying “number of effective samples”. I commented that it’s wrong and misleading, and it would be better to write … Continue reading

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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/27/effective-sample-size/

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bayesian

Authors:

Aki Vehtari

Date tagged:

11/27/2025, 08:17

Date published:

11/27/2025, 06:50