... adaptively, as with the CE and TLR methods THE HIT -AND- RUN SAMPLER 173 6.3 THE HIT -AND- RUN SAMPLER The hit -and- run sampler, pioneered by Robert Smith [24], is among the first MCMC samplers in the category ... Robert and G Casella Monte Carlo Statistical Methods Springer, New York, 2nd edition, 2004 27 S M Ross Simulation Academic Press, New York, 3rd edition, 2002 28 R Y.Rubinstein Simulation and the Monte ... independent nearest neighbor random walks in 9thatstart at X t andend when they step out o f One random walk is called the forward walk and the other is called the backward walk The bidirectional walk...