Rao-blackwellisation of sampling schemes

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-94

  Casella, George ^a   Robert, Christian P ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Accept reject; Gibbs sampling; Importance sampling; Metropolis; Monte Carlo algorithm; Polynomial computing time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002205556     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.1.81     Document Type: Article

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