# What is the difference between rand and sample?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-difference-between-rand-and-sample/52297 "2020-12-23T21:53:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-difference-between-rand-and-sample/52297/8 "2020-12-24T09:15:48Z")

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Personally I think that using `StatsBase.sample` for MCMC is bad style (“punning”).

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