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Gibbs sampling is named after the physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, in reference to an analogy between the sampling algorithm and statistical physics.The algorithm was described by brothers Stuart and Donald Geman in 1984, some eight decades after the death of Gibbs, [1] and became popularized in the statistics community for calculating marginal probability distribution, especially the posterior ...
Gibbs sampling can be viewed as a special case of Metropolis–Hastings algorithm with acceptance rate uniformly equal to 1. When drawing from the full conditional distributions is not straightforward other samplers-within-Gibbs are used (e.g., see [7] [8]). Gibbs sampling is popular partly because it does not require any 'tuning'.
Another class of methods for sampling points in a volume is to simulate random walks over it (Markov chain Monte Carlo). Such methods include the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm, Gibbs sampling, Wang and Landau algorithm, and interacting type MCMC methodologies such as the sequential Monte Carlo samplers. [99]
This method used a Gibbs sampling approach in which each individuals haplotypes were updated conditional upon the current estimates of haplotypes from all other samples. Approximations to the distribution of a haplotype conditional upon a set of other haplotypes were used for the conditional distributions of the Gibbs sampler.
Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling (BUGS) is a statistical software for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. It was developed by David Spiegelhalter at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge in 1989 and released as free software in 1991.
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Particularly notable works include: the development of the Gibbs sampler, proof of convergence of simulated annealing, [8] [9] foundational contributions to the Markov random field ("graphical model") approach to inference in vision and machine learning, [3] [10] and work on the compositional foundations of vision and cognition. [11] [12]