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Re: MCMC in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg96027] Re: MCMC in Mathematica
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 04:43:50 -0500 (EST)
• References: <gm0q4e$rmq$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

if you mean with MCMC the
"MALAYSIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA COMMISSION"
you should use Mathematica, if you mean
"Markov chain Monte Carlo" you should use C++ because
Mathematica is to valuable for the daily work and a
simulation written in Mathematica blocks one Mathematica
license.

Regards
   Jens

Ramiro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use Mathematica a lot and now I would like to do MCMC to work on
> some of my problems.  Is this something that people with experience
> would recommend?  Or should I move to a different programming language
> such as C++ or R?  I have done a little samples of MCMC on mathematica
> and it does not take much code to get it running, but I am wondering
> if I would be better off in the long-run to work on something that
> would be faster.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ramiro
> 

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