Monthly Archives: February 2012
Cool Tool
Here is a web tool that recently crossed my desk, an interactive map on the human cost of mountaintop removal. It is a mashup of a bunch of different data sources, all on a Google map, that all say it … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Powell’s Method for Maximization in PyMC
I have been using “Powell’s Method” to find maximum likelihood (ahem, maximum a posteriori) estimates in my PyMC models for years now. It is something that I arrived at by trying all the options once, and it seemed to work … Continue reading
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