Hi, do you have advice for testing functions/units that return traces or posterior inferences? How to deal with the inherent stochasticity in assertions? For example, if I know my posterior is a Gaussian with given mean and variance, how would I assert my output samples by means of a pytest?

Hi Tim, I think looking at PyMC3’s tests will help you here: https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3/tree/master/pymc3/tests I think we do exactly what you’re talking about. Hope this helps :vulcan_salute:

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t8ch August 10, 2020, 11:21am 5

thanks. I’ll check it out

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