 ##  [Gibbs Sampling](/gibbs-sampling) 

  ##  [Gibbs Sampling](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/gibbs-sampling-0) 

  
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**Natural &amp; Formal Sciences Dictionary**

 
Definition

A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm that generates samples from a multivariate target distribution by iteratively sampling each variable (or block) from its conditional distribution given the current values of the other variables.