Talk:Latin hypercube sampling

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Whodunnit?

Was it McKay or McCay? Both spellings are used. McKay 13:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC) That would be Michael McKay, recently retired from Los Alamos National Lab, and Richard Beckman, who retired a few years ago. I imagine Conover also worked with them in the Statistics Division there, but I never knew him. I'm new to Wikipedia, and wonder why they are not credited with the idea, since their publication is 2 years before the other one.Sgeubank 01:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that Iman and Conover co-invented LHS and that Iman was Conover's PhD student. This article's author should check with Inam or Conover. (I first learned of LHS at a presentation by Iman in 1980.) JDR69.140.135.184 14:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article writes : "The technique was first described by McKay in 1979.". But, technically, the paper is by "McKay et al.", not "McKay" alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.72.115.214 (talk) 14:51, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is being said?

"orthogonal sampling ensures that the ensemble of random numbers is a very good representative of the real variability" "LHS ensures that the ensemble of random numbers is representative of the real variability" Is one being stated as a better representation of real variablity to the other? If so is "very good" better or worse than "is?"Halconen (talk) 22:51, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]