Everything about Nested sampling algorithm

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Nested sampling algorithmA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Assessing Search and Unsupervised Clustering Algorithms in Nested SamplingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Introduction to Computing Using PythonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Importance Nested Sampling and the MultiNest AlgorithmCited 619 times
5. Go sideways: Approximate Bayesian computationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Stan (software)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Importance Nested Sampling and the MultiNest Algorithm

  Farhan Feroz, Michael P. Hobson, Ewan Cameron · 2019 · The Open Journal of Astrophysics · 619 citations

• Dynamic nested sampling: an improved algorithm for parameter estimation and evidence calculation

  Edward Higson, Will Handley, Michael Hobson · 2018 · Statistics and Computing · 322 citations

• A Nested Sampling Algorithm for Cosmological Model Selection

  Pia Mukherjee, David Parkinson, Andrew R. Liddle · 2006 · The Astrophysical Journal · 297 citations

• A statistical test for Nested Sampling algorithms

  Johannes Buchner · 2014 · Statistics and Computing · 254 citations

• A stochastic representation and sampling algorithm for nested Archimedean copulas

  Marius Hofert · 2012 · Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation · 37 citations

• Nested sampling algorithm for subsurface flow model selection, uncertainty quantification, and nonlinear calibration

  A. H. Elsheikh, M. F. Wheeler, I. Hoteit · 2013 · Water Resources Research · 31 citations

• Hybrid nested sampling algorithm for Bayesian model selection applied to inverse subsurface flow problems

  Ahmed H. Elsheikh, Mary F. Wheeler, Ibrahim Hoteit · 2014 · Journal of Computational Physics · 29 citations

• An evolutionary nested sampling algorithm for Bayesian model updating and model selection using modal measurement

  Feng Qian, Wei Zheng · 2017 · Engineering Structures · 19 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Assessing Search and Unsupervised Clustering Algorithms in Nested Sampling

  Lune Maillard, Fabio Finocchi, Martino Trassinelli · 2023 · Entropy · 12 citations

• The phase diagram of Mercedes Benz model of water using nested sampling algorithm and molecular dynamics simulations

  Peter Ogrin, Tomaz Urbic · 2024 · Fluid Phase Equilibria · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Introduction to Computing Using PythonLjubomir Perkovic · 2011
• Discrete mathematics for computer scienceGary Haggard · 2006
• Introduction to Programming in JavaRobert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne · 2007
• Python Basics · 2019
• Object-oriented modeling and designJames Rumbaugh, Michael Blaha · 1991
• Discrete MathmaticsR. K. Bisht, H. S. Dhami · 2015

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