On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:23:21 -0400
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As others have told you, you can't. You can talk about a uniform
> distribution on the reals but there's no way to normlize it so it
> integrates to 1, so it's an "improper" distribution, and there is no
> way to sample from those.
Most (all?) MCMC algorithms will happily sample from improper
distributions. Of course, it is not clear what they sample. ;-)
Cheers,
Berwin
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