Researchers studying hidden populations—including injection drug users, men who have sex with men, and the homeless—find that standard probability sampling methods are either inapplicable or ...

Distance sampling methods to estimate population densities are in wide use; however, this method may not be suitable for certain species or in certain habitats. Although validation of population ...

A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature ...