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Probabilistic Inference on Noisy Time Series
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Rename inference sampling? #337

Closed MichaelClerx closed 6 years ago

MichaelClerx commented 6 years ago
  1. Yes
  2. No
  3. Don't care

Will mostly be in documentation I think, probably not in the API much

mirams commented 6 years ago

I see sampling as one bit of inference (inference also including the process of using data, prior to assemble the distribution we want to sample from).

ben18785 commented 6 years ago

The trouble with inference as a name, for me, is that you could also think of optimisation as a type of inference. You infer the best fit parameters in optimisation (albeit without uncertainty quantification).

MichaelClerx commented 6 years ago

Changed this in the examples & docs