The documentation says vars ( list ) – List of variables for sampler but is the intended effect when sampling? Or more bluntly put what’s the point of the argument and what’s it used for? https://docs.pymc.io/api/inference.html#module-pymc3.step_methods.metropolis P.S. I’m going for a really…

What does the vars argument actually do in the Metropolis sampler

junpenglao October 28, 2018, 3:18pm 8

Exactly.

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