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Metropolis–Hastings.

Two proposal commands are issued so that the Hessian-based proposal wins when accepted, with the deltas form as a fallback in case the Hessian is degenerate (rare for a 3–D well-constrained problem).

chain proposal gaussian deltas 0.5
chain proposal gaussian fit
chain type mh
chain length 10000
chain burn 1000
parallel walkers 4
chain run mh.fits

Observed: 45.6% acceptance, 4 walkers each producing 2500 post-burn samples, total elapsed time 58 s.