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gloose

Are there numerical integration methods we can use to approximate the integral of p(x) and its inverse, rather than solving it exactly?

Oh_skr

What if some part of the CDF is flat, i.e. the inversion function is not injective?

Starboy

To avoid the situation that the inverse function does not exist, should we only evaluate it in the domains where the PDF is not zero?

dchen2

You mentioned that P is invertible because it is monotonically nondecreasing. Isn't this insufficient? For instance, a constant function is monotonically nondecreasing, but it is not invertible.

dl123

Why can't we draw samples from the range of x instead of the range of \psi?

ant123

What is if the inversion doesn't exist/p(x) isn't invertible?

willowpet

Could we not execute a kind of binary search via sampling by starting in the center instead of inverting the function? We would stop once we reach a certain distance from the actual value.

kpshah

is inversion method not viable if the inverse is not defined?

juniorscheesecake

CDF of any distribution is Uniform([0,1]).

superbluecat

I wonder if Monte Carlo can still perform correctly if you do not know the expression of PDF?

corgo

What happens when the function is not invertible?

David

How do we ensure the inverse gets easier?

anag

How do we get those quantities/what happens if we don't know/cannot invert it? Doesn't inverting it mean knowing which value of the random variable the CDF's value corresponds to?