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Why can't importance sampling for Normal distribution be consistent? #756

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bjenkinsgit opened this issue Jun 24, 2022 · 0 comments
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Given the following in Mathematica notation:
Probability[x < 15.2, x \[Distributed] NormalDistribution[16, 0.3]]

Always gives the same answer. Figaro does not. This at least IS called out in the documentation (pg. 40 in the book) that says this is based on a randomized algorithm. I was just wondering why Mathematica is able to give a consistent answer but Figaro is not. Is this for performance?

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