Stephen Richard Meyers

TimeOptMCMC (Meyers and Malinverno, 2018) is a Bayesian approach for evaluating cyclostratigraphic records that quantitatively links geologic data with astronomical theory. This manuscript provides an introductory guide for conducting a TimeOptMCMC Bayesian inversion, following the approach of Meyers and Malinverno (2018). The purpose of this guide is to help users identify an appropriate data set for analysis, setup an inversion correctly, execute the inversion, post-process and interpret the results, and finally, provide appropriate documentation of the TimeOptMCMC inversion in their publication. An appendix includes numerous new scripts for executing the inversion and post-processing the MCMC results.