Pruned-Enriched Rosenbluth Method

• At some point along the growth process it may become clear that

  • the chain is doomed, or
  • the chain is really doing well

• We’d like to enrich the presence of the good ones, while pruning out the ones that look bad

• Use a criterion based on partial Rosenbluth weight

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