nds (Sampling)
               0.024 seconds (Total)</code></pre>
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<h2><span class="header-section-number">4.2</span> Running multiple chains</h2>
<p>A Markov chain generates samples from the target distribution only after it has converged to equilibrium.
In theory, convergence is only guaranteed asymptotically as the number of draws grows without bound.
In practice, diagnostics must be applied to monitor convergence for the finite num