Hi all, I am trying to run rejection sampling for the quantity z11 in the function below. Unfortunately I can't simplify the function further so that z11 only appears once.
Whenever I run the algorithm, R looks as if it is running it (no error messages or anything), but then nothing happens for minutes...how long should it take to run something like this in R? I have tried in in both linux and windows. I realise standard rejection sampling is pretty cumbersome, so I have also tried to run a Gibbs sampler doing rejection sampling instead of the form of the algorithm here, with the same result. R thinks about starting to run it, then freezes. Is this a memory issue, or an issue with the algorithm? > count=0 > k=1 > f=matrix(NA,1000) >while(k<1001){ z11=runif(1,min=0,max=2) r11=(((log(z11/1-z11)^231)*((1-log(z11/1-z11))^62)*((b12)^170)*((1-b12)^250)*((b13)^217)*((1-b13)^^38))/2*.5) if(r11<runif(1,min=0,max=1)) {f(k)=z11; k=k+1} count=count+1 } THe GIbbs sampler I tried looks as follows: > p11=matrix(0.5,2000) for(i in 2000) { z=0 while(z==0) { u=runif(1,min=0,max=2) if( ((log(p11[i]/1-p11[i])^231)*((1-log(p11[i]/1-p11[i]))^62)*((b12)^170)*((1-b12)^250)*((b13)^217)*((1-b13)^38))>(2*runif(1,min=0,max=1)*.5)) {p11[i]=u; z=1} } } Ned -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R---need-more-memory%2C-or-rejection-sampling-algorithm-doesn%27t-work--tp22302800p22302800.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.