Performance study of marginal posterior density estimation via Kullback-Leibler divergence

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 321-350

  Chen, Ming Hui ^a   Shao, Qi Man ^b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian computation; conditional marginal density estimation; importance weighted marginal density estimation; kernel density estimation; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001034234     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: 18638260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02564702     Document Type: Article

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