Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Χωρική προσομοίωση Monte Carlo	Δειγματοληψία Gibbs
Πεδίο	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική	Μπεϋζιανή Στατιστική
Οικογένεια	Bayesian methods	Bayesian methods
Έτος προέλευσης	1970s–1980s	1984
Δημιουργός	B. D. Ripley and the spatial statistics tradition	Stuart Geman & Donald Geman
Τύπος	computational simulation	MCMC sampling algorithm
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Ripley, B. D. (1987). Stochastic Simulation. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0471818847	Geman, S. & Geman, D. (1984). Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions, and the Bayesian restoration of images. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 6(6), 721-741.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	spatial MC simulation, Monte Carlo spatial analysis, stochastic spatial simulation, spatial stochastic simulation	Gibbs sampler, coordinate-wise MCMC, systematic scan Gibbs, blocked Gibbs sampling
Συναφείς	4	5
Σύνοψη	Spatial Monte Carlo simulation applies random sampling methods to spatial problems, generating many stochastic realisations of a spatial process — such as a random field, point pattern, or network — to estimate distributional properties, propagate uncertainty, or test spatial hypotheses. It is a cornerstone technique in geostatistics, spatial epidemiology, ecology, and environmental modelling.	Gibbs sampling is a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm that approximates a high-dimensional posterior distribution by repeatedly drawing each parameter from its full conditional distribution given all other parameters and the data. Because each draw is exact from a conditional — not a proposal that may be rejected — the sampler is efficient when those conditionals are available in closed form.