Markov chain monte carlo estimation of the law of the mean of a dirichlet process

Bernoulli

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 573-592

  Guglielmi, Alessandra ^a   Tweedie, Richard L ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Markov chain monte carlo; Markov chains with general state space; Mean functional; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010587943     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318726     Document Type: Article

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