"Gibbs sampling" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Named after the physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, in reference to an analogy between the sampling algorithm and statistical physics. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Gibbs sampling (uncountable)
  1. (statistics) A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for obtaining a sequence of observations which are approximated from a specified multivariate probability distribution, when direct sampling is difficult. Wikipedia link: Gibbs sampling Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Statistics Related terms: Gibbs sampler
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