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Metropolis-Hastings algorithm - a method that enables sampling from any density function that can be evaluated up to a constant of integration.
Kalman filter - an efficient recursive estimator for the unobserved state of a linear discrete time dynamical system in the presence of measurement error.
Truncated normal distribution - the standard normal distribution restricted to lie in some closed interval.