Annealed importance sampling

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-139

  Neal, Radford M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estimation of normalizing constants; Free energy computation; Sequential importance sampling; Tempered transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000273048     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008923215028     Document Type: Article

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