diff --git a/vignettes/approx-inference.Rmd b/vignettes/approx-inference.Rmd index 07e85f20d..d2e13f9d3 100644 --- a/vignettes/approx-inference.Rmd +++ b/vignettes/approx-inference.Rmd @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ See the section [Variational Inference using ADVI](https://mc-stan.org/docs/cmds ## Pathfinder -Pathfinder is method closely related to variational inference, more recently developed by @zhang2022pathfinder. +Pathfinder is a method closely related to variational inference, which has been more recently developed by @zhang2022pathfinder. It works by generating Gaussian approximations along each step of an iterative optimisation algorithm (such as L-BFGS). The KL divergence from each approximation to the posterior is measured, with the best approximation chosen. Pareto smoothed importance sampling [PSIS; @vehtari2015pareto] is optionally used to resample draws from the chosen Gaussian distribution. @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ draws |> labs(x = "", y = "") ``` -## Comparison resulting delay distributions +## Comparison of resulting delay distributions How do these different distributions on the `meanlog` and `sdlog` parameters effect the estimated delay distribution?