Inverse transform sampling

Creator
Creator
Seonglae Cho
Created
Created
2024 Nov 27 16:33
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Edited
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2025 Apr 29 0:39
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Inversion sampling, inverse probability integral transform

Need to know the CDF analytically and have a tractable inverse .
  1. Compute
    Cumulative Distribution Function
  1. Generate random samples from
    Uniform distribution
  1. Inverse transform using to sample then
The distribution of the random variable is the same as .

Proof

First of all,
 
 
 
 

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