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astro-ph.IM2017★ 32 cited
Umbrella sampling: a powerful method to sample tails of distributions
Charles Matthews, Jonathan Weare, Andrey Kravtsov +1
We present the umbrella sampling (US) technique and show that it can be used to sample extremely low probability areas of the posterior distribution that may be required in statist…
stat.ME2017
Stratification as a general variance reduction method for Markov chain Monte Carlo
Aaron R. Dinner, Erik Thiede, Brian Van Koten +1
The Eigenvector Method for Umbrella Sampling (EMUS) belongs to a popular class of methods in statistical mechanics which adapt the principle of stratified survey sampling to the co…