As a result, care must be taken if independent samples are desired (typically by "thinning" the resulting chain of samples by only taking every "n" th value, e.g. every 100th value).
As a result, care must be taken if independent samples are desired. If necessary, one possible remedy is "thinning" the resulting chain of samples (i.e. only taking every "n" th value, e.g. every 10th value).