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It was shown in Chapter 3 that it is not necessary to use a sample from the distribution f to approximate the integral
since importance sampling techniques can be used.
“What’s changed, except what needed changing?” And there was something in that, Cadfael reflected. What was changed was the replacement of falsity by truth…
—Ellis Peter, The Confession of Brother Haluin
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Robert, C.P., Casella, G. (1999). The Metropolis—Hastings Algorithm. In: Monte Carlo Statistical Methods. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3071-5_6
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