ich have close to Gaussian posterior and little dependency on other parameters.</p>
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<h3><span class="header-section-number">16.4.2</span> Estimation of Effective Sample Size</h3>
<p>In practice, the probability function in question cannot be tractably integrated and thus the autocorrelation cannot be calculated, nor the effective sample size. Instead, these quantities must be estimated from the samples themselves. The rest of this 