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D do xk ← gauss(σ) Σ ← Σ + x2k 1/d Υ ← ran (0, 1) for k = 1, . . , d√ do xk ← Υxk / Σ output {x1 , . . 21 direct-sphere. Uniform random vector inside the ddimensional unit sphere. The output is independent of σ. 45) are identical, and this means that the d Gaussians sample angles isotropically in d dimensions, and only get the radius wrong. This radius should be sampled from a distribution π(r) ∝ rd−1 . 29), we obtain the direct distribution of r by taking the dth root of a random number ran (0, 1).
K } without rejections. Πk activity k Πk−1 jog chores study Π0 = 0 Fig. 29 Saturday night problem solved by tower sampling. Tower sampling can be applied to discrete distributions with a total number K in the hundreds, thousands, or even millions. It often works when the naive rejection method of Fig. 28 fails because of too many rejections. Tower sampling becomes impracticable only when the probabilities {π1 , . . , πK } can no longer be listed. In Alg. e. how we implement the line marked by an asterisk.
N do πk ← θπk−1 + (1 − θ)πk πN +1 ← θπN output {π0 , . . 9 Probabilities {π0 , . . , πN } in Alg. 109 . 397 . 25 binomial-convolution. Probabilities of numbers of hits for N + 1 trials obtained from those for N trials. 5 0 0 10 20 30 number of hits k 40 50 Fig. 33 Probabilities for the number of hits in the children’s game with N trials (from Alg. 25 (binomial-convolution), using θ = Ô/4). 47) through the relations N 0 = N N = 1, N N + k−1 k = N +1 k (1 ≤ k ≤ N ). Replacing θ and (1 − θ) by 1 in Alg.