Optimal Scaling for Various Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms

Statistical Science

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 351-367

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

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive triangulations; AIC; Density estimation; Extended linear models; Finite elements; Free knot splines; GCV; Linear splines; Multivariate splines; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013037129     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1015346320     Document Type: Article

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