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Statistical inference with complex survey data is challenging because the sampling design can be informative, and ignoring it can produce misleading results. Current methods of Bayesian inference ...

Aim: Many broad-scale ecological inventory and monitoring efforts collect multi-species (or otherwise multivariate) data under unstructured study designs. Unstructured designs are vulnerable to ...

A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature ...