Updating schemes, correlation structure, blocking and parameterization for the gibbs sampler

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 291-317

  Roberts, G O ^a   Sahu, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Blocking; Correlation structure; Gaussian distribution; Gibbs sampler; Markov chain Monte Carlo method; Markov random field; Parameterization; Random scan; Rates of convergence; Stochastic relaxation; Updating schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000051645     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00070     Document Type: Article

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