Add general gradient estimator to SampledObs class. #65
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For an expectation value
the general form of the gradient is
where$\Gamma_\theta(s)=\partial_\theta\log\psi_\theta(s)$ .
This PR implements a
mean_and_grad
member function of theSampledObs
class that computes the gradient of the expectation value as given above.