Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes. And a number of other variations. None gave anything that seemed to > relate. It's quite likely though that I'm simply not understanding how > things like pymc (which came up in the searches) might help me, or how to > convert my problem into a Monte Carlo integration problem (another topic > that came up a lot, for example). So if there are specific links from > such a search that match well to the problem as I described it above, I'd > be really grateful for pointers.
PyMC and emcee are used for solving complicated integrals that often turn up in Bayesian statistics. They have the same usecase as the R-like application BUGS (WinBUGS). If you don't know what Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Gibbs sampler or Metropolis-Hastings means you probably don't want this. It is rather hardcore numerical mathematics for solving a particular problem (multidimensional integrals that are not analytically tractable), not something you would use for any kind of Monte Carlo simulation. Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
