2 papers
stat.ME2025
Self-Tuned Rejection Sampling within Gibbs and a Case Study in Small Area Estimation
Andrew M. Raim, Kyle M. Irimata, James A. Livsey
When formulating a Gibbs sampler, some conditionals may be unfamiliar distributions without well-known variate generation routines. Rejection sampling may be used to draw from such…
stat.ME2025
Rejection Sampling with Vertical Weighted Strips
Andrew M. Raim, James A. Livsey, Kyle M. Irimata
A number of distributions that arise in statistical applications can be expressed in the form of a weighted density: the product of a base density and a nonnegative weight function…