http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/mcmc-historyo/ Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/mcmc-historyo/comment-page-1/#comment-487 hlee Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:04:12 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=768#comment-487 I tremendously appreciate your comment, a piece of history I would never know. I tremendously appreciate your comment, a piece of history I would never know.

]]> http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/mcmc-historyo/comment-page-1/#comment-486 Robin Morris Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:55:44 +0000 http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=768#comment-486 My experience is that "Monte Carlo Markov Chain" is often a result of writing by non-native English speakers --MCMC in French would be expanded as "Monte Carlo par Chaines de Markov" (or somesuch), leading to Monte Carlo Markov Chain when (incorrectly) tranlated into English. At least that was my experience when I was a postdoc in France many years ago. My experience is that “Monte Carlo Markov Chain” is often a result of writing by non-native English speakers –MCMC in French would be expanded as “Monte Carlo par Chaines de Markov” (or somesuch), leading to Monte Carlo Markov Chain when (incorrectly) tranlated into English. At least that was my experience when I was a postdoc in France many years ago.

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