GIBBS SAMPLING FOR THE UNINITIATED

This document is intended for computer scientists who would like to try out a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique, particularly in order to do inference with Bayesian models on problems related to text processing. We try to keep theory to the absolute minimum needed, though we work through the details much more explicitly than you usually see even in \introductory explanations. That means we’ve attempted to be ridiculously explicit in our...