Thomas Wiecki

Results 73 issues of Thomas Wiecki

Closes #2028.

netcdf is used in only two methods (loading and saving to netcdf) and is a heavier dependency, could we make that optional? background: I'm playing around with pyscript and the...

The doc-strings rarely have good examples. https://arviz-devs.github.io/arviz/api/generated/arviz.InferenceData.add_groups.html#arviz.InferenceData.add_groups for example could really use an example to know how to use it.

User Documentation

https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3/pull/4815 changed how the `pm.Bound` API works, we need to find all instances where we use it and fix them.

https://docs.pymc.io/pymc-examples/examples/generalized_linear_models/GLM-hierarchical.html Missing are the images of the hierarchical model that @fonnesbeck created. Not sure if he has an updated link.

There are quite a few NBs that still need porting here in ToDo or Best Practices (v3): https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-examples/projects/1#card-75796525 How? Run the `scripts/rerun.py` script (https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-examples/blob/main/scripts/rerun.py) which attempts to auto-update the code...

# Notebook proposal **Title**: BVAR model for economists ## Why should this notebook be added to pymc-examples? Economists seem to like BVAR and are looking for this example as a...

proposal

I coded this up a while ago, pretty simple model but I think it's an interesting (and commonly referred to) model: https://gist.github.com/twiecki/713cf58f5fa37332d0cda48a7c798016 Probably just needs some more text and explanation.

good first issue
help wanted
proposal

Currently we only have the doc string, but a good example NB on what it is, how to use it etc would go a long way.

It should be fairly easy to apply these samplers to a PyMC3 model. Our samplers are written in pure Python too so the speed should be the same. What do...