Geometric ergodicity and hybrid markov chains

Electronic Communications in Probability

Volumn 2, Issue , 1997, Pages 13-25

  Roberts, Gareth O ^a   Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ergodicity; Markov Chain; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002074149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1083589X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v2-981     Document Type: Article

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