Exact Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling I don’t like the naming. The word exact could mislead us to understand the concept. Anyway I used the word in the title because it was the title of the chapter of the book “Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms” by David Mackay, which I studied to learn the theory. The different names of it are perfect simulation and coupling from the past. Maybe these are better names.

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Namshik Kim

physicist, data scientist

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Vancouver, BC, Canada.