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Validating Bayesian Inference Algorithms with Simulation-Based Calibration

Sean Talts, Michael Betancourt, Daniel Simpson et al., 2018. arXiv.

Describes simulation-based calibration, a check on Bayesian inference software: draw parameters from the prior, simulate data, fit the model, and test whether the ranks of the true values among the posterior draws are uniform.

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Talts, S., Betancourt, M., Simpson, D., Vehtari, A., & Gelman, A. (2018). Validating Bayesian Inference Algorithms with Simulation-Based Calibration. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06788
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