Gibbs sampling

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Etymology

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Named after the physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, in reference to an analogy between the sampling algorithm and statistical physics.

Noun

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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.
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