I’m new to pymc3 and I am trying to generate samples from a Categorical distribution for a list of discrete variables rv_list related to patient data. I’m trying to wrap my head around why adding observed data to a Random Variable causes it to not appear in the trace generated by pm.sample(). My da…

Welcome! The values of observed variables are not sampled. The observed values are taken “as is” and the likelihood of those observed values is calculated (repeatedly) during sampling. In the coal mining disaster example, I do not see the observed variable (disasters) in the posterior. The obser…

Random Variable with observed data not in trace

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cluhmann October 20, 2022, 10:07pm 4

Glad you got it sorted out!

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Random Variable with observed data not in trace

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