diff --git a/docs/src/using-turing/sampler-viz.md b/docs/src/using-turing/sampler-viz.md index 324428256..b846c76e6 100644 --- a/docs/src/using-turing/sampler-viz.md +++ b/docs/src/using-turing/sampler-viz.md @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ plot_sampler(c) ### HMC -Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling is a typical sampler to use, as it tends to be fairly good at converging in a efficient manner. It can often be tricky to set the correct parameters for this sampler however, and the `NUTS` sampler is often easier to run if you don't want to spend too much time fiddling with step size and and the number of steps to take. Note however that `HMC` does not explore the positive values μ very well, likely due to the leapfrop and step size parameter settings. +Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling is a typical sampler to use, as it tends to be fairly good at converging in a efficient manner. It can often be tricky to set the correct parameters for this sampler however, and the `NUTS` sampler is often easier to run if you don't want to spend too much time fiddling with step size and and the number of steps to take. Note however that `HMC` does not explore the positive values μ very well, likely due to the leapfrog and step size parameter settings. ```julia c = sample(model, HMC(0.01, 10), 1000) diff --git a/src/inference/hmc.jl b/src/inference/hmc.jl index 8f76aab24..ffdbf7b71 100644 --- a/src/inference/hmc.jl +++ b/src/inference/hmc.jl @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampler with static trajectory. Arguments: - `ϵ::Float64` : The leapfrog step size to use. -- `n_leapfrog::Int` : The number of leapfrop steps to use. +- `n_leapfrog::Int` : The number of leapfrog steps to use. Usage: @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ Arguments: - `n_adapts::Int` : Numbers of samples to use for adaptation. - `δ::Float64` : Target acceptance rate. 65% is often recommended. -- `λ::Float64` : Target leapfrop length. +- `λ::Float64` : Target leapfrog length. - `ϵ::Float64=0.0` : Inital step size; 0 means automatically search by Turing. For more information, please view the following paper ([arXiv link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4246)):