How to sample from custom 2D distribution?
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Filip Trönnberg
el 18 de Abr. de 2012
Editada: Ahmadreza Momenisedei
el 28 de Sept. de 2020
I have a joint density function for to independent variables X and Y. (See: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/709705/JointDens.png) And I now want to sample new x,y from this distribution.
What I believe I have to do is to find the joint cumulative distribution and then somehow sample from it. I kinda know how to do this in 1D, but I find it really hard to understand how to do it in 2D.
I also used the matlab-function cumtrapz to find the cumulative distribution function for the above pdf. (See: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/709705/CumulativeDist.png)
Just to be clear, what i want to do is to sample random values x,y from this empirical distribution.
Can someone please point me in the right direction here?!
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Richard Brown
el 19 de Abr. de 2012
A really basic, quick to code (but darned inefficient way) is to generate uniform samples in the 3D volume defined by the x and y coordinates and the maximum z coordinate. Accept only samples that fall beneath the surface. The x,y coordinates of these samples will have the distribution you want.
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Atul Kedia
el 21 de Jul. de 2019
Editada: Atul Kedia
el 22 de Jul. de 2019
Lets say the pdf is for variables and is denoted by .
You can imagine a 2-D distribution as a surface in 3 dimensions with undulations based on the distribution. The height of the surface above any point corresponds to its probability (distribution ). What he is suggesting is to sample uniformly over the range of (where maximum value that z takes = maximum value of the pdf, or , or the max height of the surface in 3-D).
If for the sampled () , then the coordinates are part of your randomly sampled points. If then the point need to be rejected and is not part of your sample.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Ahmadreza Momenisedei
el 28 de Sept. de 2020
Editada: Ahmadreza Momenisedei
el 28 de Sept. de 2020
That was smart!
Tom Lane
el 19 de Abr. de 2012
There is a Statistics Toolbox function "slicesample" that could be useful. It does not generate independent samples from the distribution, but instead generates a Markov Chain such that a long sequence of values will have a distribution close to the target distribution. To use this, you would need to be able to write down an expression for the density.
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