"rejection sampling" meaning in All languages combined

See rejection sampling on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: rejection samplings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} rejection sampling (usually uncountable, plural rejection samplings)
  1. (computational statistics, numerical analysis) 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. Tags: uncountable, usually

Inflected forms

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