This article was ported from my old Wordpress blog here, If you see any issues with the rendering or layout, please send me an email.I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics.Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a technique ...