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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 36 4 c Solution by
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Apply independent uniforms to the proposals, and let indicate acceptance. Each is Bernoulli with success probability , and the indicators are independent because the pairs are independent. HenceFor a fixed acceptance pattern, the values at accepted positions are independent with density , by the single-trial conditional density calculation. The same product law holds for every pattern of a given size. Consequently, conditional on , the ordered accepted observations have joint density . This is the binomial count and iid values in fixed-budget rejection sampling; the count provides no information about those target values.
There is a finite-sample empty-output event, with probability . Any estimator dividing by must be defined separately on .
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