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The study of collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data.

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How to add large exponential terms reliably without overflow errors?

A very common problem in Markov Chain Monte Carlo involves computing probabilities that are sum of large exponential terms, $ e^{a_1} + e^{a_2} + ... $ where the components of $a$ can range from ver …
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