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