[warrenmar]

Not to hijack this post, but I'm saddened every time I see anything monte carlo related referred to as the metropolis algorithm. When you're the boss, what you say goes.

http://andrewgelman.com/2014/06/30/invented-metropolis-algor...

[shogunmike]

There is also a bit of historical discussion on Wikipedia about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%E2%80%93Hastings_al...