Technical requirements

For this chapter, we require the standard scientific Python packages: NumPy, Matplotlib, and SciPy. We will also require the PyMC package for the final recipe. You can install this using your favorite package manager, such as pip:

python3.10 -m pip install pymc

This command will install the most recent version of PyMC, which, at the time of writing, is 4.0.1. This package provides facilities for probabilistic programming, which involves performing many calculations driven by randomly generated data to understand the likely distribution of a solution to a problem.

Note

In the previous edition, the current version of PyMC was 3.9.2, but since then, PyMC version 4.0 was released and the name reverted to PyMC with this update rather than PyMC3.

The code for this chapter can be found in the Chapter 04 folder of the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applying-Math-with-Python-2nd-Edition/tree/main/Chapter%2004.