Local adaptive importance sampling for multivariate densities with strong nonlinear relationships

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 132-141

  Givens, Geof H ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Density estimation; Integral evaluation; Kernel method; Monte Carlo simulation; Nonparametric method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000434284     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476670     Document Type: Article

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