[rbkillea]

The paragraph was a chronological account of when techniques were introduced with accompanying citations. The 1998 paper in the preceding sentence would lead the reader to believe that low discrepancy sampling came after the robust sampling methods (and potentially even that low discrepancy sampling was a new technique). Both have had further work that continues to this day, and both are much more complex and well-understood today.

> desperate to be dismissive

How is clarifying what I was commenting on "desperate"? I feel like you're trying to escalate here.