Skare, Øivind; Bølviken, Erik; Holden, Lars - In: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 719-737
The sampling-importance resampling (SIR) algorithm aims at drawing a random sample from a target distribution π. First, a sample is drawn from a proposal distribution "q", and then from this a smaller sample is drawn with sample probabilities proportional to the importance ratios π/"q". We...