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SUMMARY:Adrien Malacan
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 How to beat the Casino and know when your Code has converged : Mixing Time
 s of Markov Chains</a>\nby Adrien Malacan as part of Gothenburg PhD semina
 r\n\nLecture held in MVL14.\n\nAbstract\nI invite you to read the category
  that fits you best.\n\nYou are a statistician : You deal with scarry dist
 ributions which you sample using MCMCs. But how do you know when your algo
 rithm has actually converged ? \n\nYou are a probabilist : The ergodic the
 orem tells you kindly that your favorite Markov chain converges to station
 arity...eventually. But it stays silent about when that happens. \n\nYou a
 re about to bet your mortgage in Las Vegas: Is the deck of cards the croup
 ier is shuffling really that random\; or is there an opportunity to mathem
 atically beat the casino ?  \n\nIf at least one of these questions raises 
 your interest\, you're välkommen to hear more about mixing times! :)\n
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