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Bayesian statistical theory had been published, imtil 80 in twenty century Bayesian statistical theory has been in theory research phase, integral calculation is a big barrier in his development and application. However, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) has been used to Bayesian statistical inference in recently, a main characteristic of this method is Metropolis-Hastings updating and Gibbs sampling, it can solve well the problem of numerical integration and sampling in multi dimensional distribution, which is convenient for posterior inference of parameters and accelerate the application of Bayesian theory. 

The variational quantum Monte Carlo method (VMC) is both simpler and more efficient than the DMC method, but also usually less accurate. In this method the Rayleigh-Ritz quotient for a trial function 0 is evaluated with Monte Carlo integration. The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm " is used to sample the distribution... 

Another simulation approach often used that does not offer a simple deterministic time evolution of the system is the Metropolis Monte Carlo [MMC] method. Based on the Metropolis-Hasting algorithm [3, 4], MMC methods are weighted sampling techniques in which particles are randomly moved about to obtain a statistical ensemble of atoms with a particular probability distribution for some quantity. This is usually the energy but can also be other quantities such as experimental inputs that can be quickly calculated from an atomic... 

Table A. 10 gives the Minitab commands for three Metropolis-Hastings chains with a random-walk candidate density coupled with the past using the macro Nor-mMixMHRW.mac for a mixture of normal distributions four Markov chain Monte Carlo sample from a mixture of normal distributions using either a normal random-walk candidate density m an independent candidate density. If we want to use an independent candidate density, the macro NormMixMHIruLmac is used instead and the constants for the candidate density changed.

This review article is divided into two major sections, the first of which details the theoretical basis of RQMC (Sect. 18.2). Initially we describe quantum Monte Carlo sampling from the pure distribution and mixed distribution F, showing that the RQMC approach to sample from the pure distribution rests on Metropolis-Hastings (MH [25,26]) sampling, as does the variational path integral (VPI [27]) method. As already mentioned, RQMC proposes reptafion-type moves while... 

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