rejection sampling

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rejection
noun
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/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/us
/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/
the act of refusing to accept, use, or believe someone ...
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sample
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɑːm.pəl/us
/ˈsæm.pəl/
a small amount of something that shows you what the rest is or should ...
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The routines include interpolations of cross sections, and sampling of statistical distributions through techniques such as direct methods orrejectionsampling.
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We present a uniform generation procedure for outerplanar graphs usingrejectionsampling.
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Using this simplerejectionsamplingcriterion, the likelihood of the variable value ranges is obtained from the generated histogram.
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We overcome this by choosing a set of random walks and userejectionsamplingto make the final walk have the correct distribution.
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Now take off all of the darts that are outside the curve (i.e. performrejectionsampling).
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Then, a sample can be drawn from the slice usingrejectionsampling.
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Rejectionsamplingis extremely slow for large sample sizes.
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For many distributions, this problem can be solved using an adaptive extension (see adaptiverejectionsampling).
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Belonging to the class ofrejectionsamplingalgorithms, it relies on an underlying source of uniformly-distributed random numbers, typically from a pseudo-random number generator, as well as precomputed tables.
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On the other hand, most simplerejectionsamplingmethods suffer from the curse of dimensionality, where the probability of rejection increases exponentially as a function of the number of dimensions.
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One such method isrejectionsampling.
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It is often the case that, even for simple distributions, the inverse transform sampling method can be improved on: see, for example, the ziggurat algorithm andrejectionsampling.
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