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Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

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Etymology

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Named after Nicholas Metropolis and W. K. Hastings.

Proper noun

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the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

  1. (statistics) A Markov chain Monte Carlo method for obtaining a sequence of random samples from a probability distribution from which direct sampling is difficult.
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