Talk:Rejection sampling
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- as a layman I find the present page too hard to understand, e.g. I don't know the terms "subgraph of a function" or "marginally"
- how does it compare to alternatives?
- I was looking for this information using the term "rejection algorithm", is that a common alternative name?
[edit] Example is good, but incomplete
The circle in square example is very clear, but it lacks the random rejection aspect of the algorithm; once the point is chosen, whether it will be accepted or not is already determined regardless of u. It would be nice to have a more complete example.
Another way of saying this is that this example is more of an example for importance sampling, which does not involve a random u.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodrigo braz (talk • contribs) 02:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC) Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (talk) 02:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Naming
Is this method perhaps known in English as von Neumann method? And if it is, should we make a redirect (I tried to find it as a von Neumann method, since it is what we call it in Serbian)? -- Obradović Goran (talk 19:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
