Question about rejection

[Peku995]

Hello, I have a question concering the rejection criterium. In the case of non-parallel, in line 213, namely
if logrand(1,wix)<(numel(proposedm(:,wix))-1)*log(zz(wix))
and line 216, namely
if logrand(fix+1,wix)>proposedlogP(fix)-curlogP(fix,wix) || ~isreal(proposedlogP(fix)) || isnan(proposedlogP(fix))

how did you come up with these lines? I could not find them in the original publication.
This would help me a lot.

[grinsted]

I have pretty much moved away from matlab, so it has been a while since i looked at it. So this answer comes without looking at the code or the paper - here what i think i must have been doing:

1. You can cascade acceptance/rejection criteria (the looping of if's). The gist of the idea is in the "modification of random walks" section of this paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/94JB03097
2. using logarithms on both sides of the inequality.
3. treat the probability as 0 outside the support of the function (hence the isreal and isnan)

I hope this helps.

[Peku995]

thank you very much for the quick answer!
i have one more question, which i hope is not too obvious.
If I understand correctly, the Goodman and Weare algorithm is used to determine random new points, and the criterion for determining whether the new points are accepted or not is based on the the paper you mentioned above, is that correct?