articleThe Journal of Open Source SoftwareJan 15, 2019DIAMOND OA

ArviZ a unified library for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models in Python

Carbon180 · Bird Technologies (United States) · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

While conceptually simple, Bayesian methods can be mathematically and numerically challenging. Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) implement functions to easily build Bayesian models together with efficient automatic inference methods. This helps separate the model building from the inference, allowing practitioners to focus on their specific problems and leaving PPLs to handle the computational details for them The inference process generates a posterior distribution -which has a central role in Bayesian statistics -together with other distributions like the posterior predictive distribution and the prior predictive distribution. The correct visualization, analysis, and interpretation of these…

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