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Monte Carlo Markov Chain

Cory Maklin
Towards Data Science
8 min readAug 24, 2020

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A Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) is a model describing a sequence of possible events where the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. MCMC have a wide array of applications, the most common of which is the approximation of probability distributions.

Let’s take a look at an example of Monte Carlo Markov Chains in action. Suppose we wanted to determine the probability of sunny…

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