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rejection sampling
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rejection sampling (usually uncountable, plural rejection samplings)
- (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.
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