Definition:Gibbs Sampler/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Gibbs Sampler
The Gibbs Sampler was devised by the brothers Stuart Alan Geman and Donald Jay Geman in $1984$.
It was named after Josiah Willard Gibbs, who was a pioneer of statistical mechanics.
Sources
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Gibbs sampler