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rejection sampling

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables
re-jec-tion sam-pling
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

rejection samplings (plural)

Questions

What does rejection sampling mean?
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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