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+@article{Salvatier2016,
+  doi = {10.7717/peerj-cs.55},
+  url = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.55},
+  year  = {2016},
+  month = {apr},
+  publisher = {{PeerJ}},
+  volume = {2},
+  pages = {e55},
+  author = {John Salvatier and Thomas V. Wiecki and Christopher Fonnesbeck},
+  title = {Probabilistic programming in Python using {PyMC}3},
+  journal = {{PeerJ} Computer Science}
+}