Exact Sampling and Prefix Distributions

Sebastian Oberhoff
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MS Graduate Student

“In this talk we’ll discuss means to draw exact samples without incurring any numerical error. In the context of continuous random variables this leads naturally to so called prefix distributions – discrete distributions that fully capture a continuous distribution.”

Committee Members: 
Profs. Chao Zhu (Advisor); Bruce Wade & Jeb Willenbring