English Explanatory Dictionary

rejection sampling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A technique used to generate observations from a distribution by repeatedly sampling an approximation function that bounds the distribution everywhere from above and rejecting the samples based on the quotient of the two functions at the sample's location.

Word forms

rejection sampling rejection samplings
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