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| | 108 | * Wednesday AM2 |
| | 109 | * How to reduce variance of sampling: reduce variance of function sampled or increase the number of samples taken. |
| | 110 | * minimal relevance sampling: Choice of density of sampling will influence the variance of your monte carlo estimate. |
| | 111 | * That's pretty much what importance sampling is all about is multiplying things by 1, dressed up in a "tricky fashion". |
| | 112 | * '''Importance sampling:''' How to sample wisely for your monte carlo estimates. |
| | 113 | * [http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/slatkin/eriq/classes/guest_lect/mc_lecture_notes.pdf Thorough lecture notes on this]. |
| | 114 | * "Poor mixing is the evil cousin of reducibility" |
| | 115 | * Metropolis-coupled monte carlo (heated chains) |
| | 116 | * Chains with exponent modifiers 0 < x < 1 |
| | 117 | * Simulated annealing |
| | 118 | * Chains with exponent modifiers x > 1 |