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User's Guide discussion of thinning samples - mention anti-correlated draws?

Open mitzimorris opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Summary:

The Stan User's Guide section on thinning samples - should it provide more guidance? In particular, mention anti-correlated draws? https://mc-stan.org/docs/reference-manual/effective-sample-size.html#thinning-samples

Current Version:

v2.29.2

mitzimorris avatar Jun 28 '22 15:06 mitzimorris

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll update the doc and point out that rho_t can be negative and then qualify the thinning section.

bob-carpenter avatar Jun 28 '22 21:06 bob-carpenter