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Rejection sampling has the target acceptance law
Statement
Let be a measure space and let be measurable with and . Suppose is finite and -almost everywhere. Apply Rejection sampling with proposal law . If is the first accepted proposal, then almost surely, the per-proposal acceptance probability is and for every , Thus the accepted law has density . In the normalized case , this gives acceptance probability and accepted density ; necessarily .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The measure space, nonnegative measurable shapes, positive finite normalizers, a finite envelope constant, and the ideal independent draws in Rejection sampling.
The common envelope holds outside a measurable -null set. The algorithm's ratio is defined to be zero where .
Rejection sampling and Identical distribution and IID families: the proposal draws have law , the auxiliary draws have the uniform law on , and the two IID sequences are independent.
The measure with density relative to and Probability measures and probability spaces: a nonnegative measurable density defines the measure ; if its total mass is , division by gives a probability measure.
A nonnegative measurable function with finite integral is finite almost everywhere: finite nonnegative integral implies the function is finite almost everywhere.
The nonnegative Lebesgue integral and The integral of a nonnegative simple function define the nonnegative integral by simple minorants and the simple integral by level-set measures; Additivity of the nonnegative Lebesgue integral gives additivity for extended nonnegative measurable functions.
Expectation of a nonnegative or integrable random variable and Change of variables for expectation: the expectation of a nonnegative measurable indicator is its probability, and expectations of nonnegative measurable functions equal their integrals against the random element's law.
Independent random elements have product joint law: independent random elements have joint law equal to the product of their marginal laws.
Tonelli's theorem for nonnegative measurable functions on a sigma-finite product: a nonnegative product-measurable function on a product of probability spaces can be integrated in either order.
Integrating against a density agrees with integrating the product: if , then for every nonnegative measurable .
Rejection sampling, The product sigma-algebra and its finite iterates, Arithmetic and lattice operations preserve measurability whenever they are defined, Composition with a Borel measurable outer map preserves measurability, and Threshold characterisations of real-valued and extended-real-valued measurability: the algorithm proves its reciprocal extension Borel and its acceptance function measurable; the coordinate projections on are measurable, and is a measurable threshold set.
Monotonicity and nonnegative homogeneity of the nonnegative integral: pointwise order of nonnegative functions implies the same order of their integrals.
Measures on sigma-algebras: a measure is countably additive on disjoint measurable sequences.
For , , and for the series diverges gives for ; For the sequence is null, and for the sequence diverges to , claim 1, gives because , including .
Law or distribution of a random element: the law of a random element assigns to each measurable set the probability of its inverse image.
Proof
Given: The objects and hypotheses in the Statement.
By [F3], both shapes are finite outside null sets. Let be the measurable null union of those sets and the envelope exception from [A1]. For any nonnegative measurable supported on , every simple minorant has all its positive level sets contained in , so its simple integral is zero; hence by [F4]. For either shape and any measurable , the decomposition and additivity [F4] therefore give . Products here use , and are measurable by [F9]. Replace each shape by ; neither density measure nor any displayed integral changes. In particular . By [F13] and countable additivity [F11], the probability that any proposal hits is zero; changing the acceptance rule there leaves the output law unchanged. The new shapes are finite and satisfy everywhere, so implies .
Fix and let . By [F9] the event is measurable. By [F1] and [F6] the joint law of is . Hence [F5] and [F13] give
Tonelli [F7] evaluates the last integral as including and , since on .
Apply [F8] to the proposal density and the measurable function . Where , the envelope makes ; where , [step 1.1] gives . Therefore
Taking in step 3.1 gives . Integrating the pointwise envelope and using [F10] gives , so . For normalized densities, , hence and .
Put . Independence of the proposal-uniform pairs [F1] gives for every . Since , [F12] gives ; the event is contained in every , so .
For each , independence across trials gives These events are disjoint, so countable additivity [F11] and the geometric series [F12] yield The almost-sure termination in step 5.1 makes this the full output law.
Depends on
- The nonnegative Lebesgue integral
- The integral of a nonnegative simple function
- Additivity of the nonnegative Lebesgue integral
- Rejection sampling
- A nonnegative measurable function with finite integral is finite almost everywhere
- Expectation of a nonnegative or integrable random variable
- Identical distribution and IID families
- Law or distribution of a random element
- Measures on sigma-algebras
- The measure with density $f$ relative to $\mu$
- Probability measures and probability spaces
- The product sigma-algebra and its finite iterates
- For $|r| < 1$ the sequence $r^k$ is null, and for $|r| > 1$ the sequence $|r|^k$ diverges to $+\infty$
- Monotonicity and nonnegative homogeneity of the nonnegative integral
- Arithmetic and lattice operations preserve measurability whenever they are defined
- Change of variables for expectation
- Composition with a Borel measurable outer map preserves measurability
- For $|r| < 1$, $\sum_{k \ge 0} r^k = 1/(1-r)$, and for $|r| \ge 1$ the series diverges
- Independent random elements have product joint law
- Integrating against a density agrees with integrating the product
- Tonelli's theorem for nonnegative measurable functions on a sigma-finite product
- Threshold characterisations of real-valued and extended-real-valued measurability
Used by
- A bounded target-to-proposal density ratio Example
- Rejection sampling with unnormalized finite masses Example
- Expected proposal count under a finite rejection envelope Theorem
Cited to discharge well-definedness by Rejection sampling.
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Sources
- Art B. Owen, Monte Carlo Theory, Methods and Examples, Chapter 4 §4.7 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Computational Statistics with R, Chapter 6 §6.1 (standard reference, not scraped)