emcee

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emcee provides a Python toolkit for affine-invariant Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling.

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About emcee

emcee is a stable, well tested Python implementation of the affine-invariant ensemble sampler for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) proposed by Goodman and Weare (2010). Documentation is available at emcee.readthedocs.io. The code is open source under the MIT License and has been used in several published projects in the Astrophysics literature.

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Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
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English
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Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
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Oct 5, 2026

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