Naomi Nguyen
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

Great introduction article! I just stumble on a few things:

  1. Researchers who conduct surveys have done this technique for years. When it’s impossible to obtain a statistics of a population, they randomly select people to obtain the statistics of that sample to estimate for the population’s statistics. So why is this new? Why is it named after the gambling event?
  2. Is active sampling (or semi-supervised learning) a type of MC method?
  3. Could you introduce introductory articles demonstrating the performance and limitation of different MC methods? I heard about MCMC the most, but I’d like to have a comprehensive picture.