Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 11: Importance Sampling
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Importance sampling
Today We will talk about the third option: Importance sampling and correlated sampling
Content:
- Importance Sampling
- Finding Optimal p*(x) for Sampling
- Example of importance sampling
- What are allowed values of a?
- What does infinite variance look like?
- General Approach to Importance Sampling
- Correlated Sampling
- Sampling Boltzmann distribution
- Independent Sampling for exp(-V/kT)?
- Intuitive explanation
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David M. Ceperley (2009), "Illinois PHYS 466, Lecture 11: Importance Sampling," https://nanohub.org/resources/6488.