Normal Sampler Factory

Creates a sampler function for use with with_restarts that generates normally distributed starting points around a center.

Usage

normal_sampler(center, sd = 1)

Arguments

center

Mean of the normal distribution

sd

Standard deviation (scalar or vector)

Value

A sampler function

Examples

sampler <- normal_sampler(c(0, 1), sd = c(5, 0.5))
strategy <- with_restarts(gradient_ascent(), n = 20, sampler = sampler)