Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of posterior distribution

MCMC sampling of using a cascaded metropolis
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NOTE: I recommend using my new GWMCMC sampler which can also be downloaded from the file exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/49820-the-mcmc-hammer--gwmcmc
Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of posterior distribution

A metropolis sampler
[mmc,logP]=mcmc(initialm,loglikelihood,logmodelprior,stepfunction,mccount,skip)
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initialm: starting point fopr random walk
loglikelihood: function handle to likelihood function: logL(m)
logprior: function handle to the log model priori probability: logPapriori(m)
stepfunction: function handle with no inputs which returns a random
step in the random walk. (note stepfunction can also be a
matrix describing the size of a normally distributed
step.)
mccount: How long should the markov chain be?
skip: Thin the chain by only storing every N'th step [default=10]



EXAMPLE USAGE: fit a normal distribution to data
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data=randn(100,1)*2+3;
logmodelprior=@(m)0; %use a flat prior.
loglike=@(m)sum(log(normpdf(data,m(1),m(2))));
minit=[0 1];
m=mcmc(minit,loglike,logmodelprior,[.2 .5],10000);
m(1:100,:)=[]; %crop drift
plotmatrix(m);


--- Aslak Grinsted 2010

Cite As

Aslak Grinsted (2024). Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of posterior distribution (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47912-markov-chain-monte-carlo-sampling-of-posterior-distribution), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2010a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Acknowledgements

Inspired by: Ensemble MCMC sampler

Inspired: Ensemble MCMC sampler

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