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The Folk Theorem of Statistical Computing

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-05-04

From an email I received the other day:

Things are going much better now — it’s interesting, it feels like with both of my models, parameters are slow to converge or get “stuck” and have trouble mixing when the model is somehow misspecified.

See here for a statement of the folk theorem.