MCMC sampler convergence rates for hierarchical normal linear models: A simulation approach

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 377-389

  Cowles, Mary Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural field trials; Bayesian models; Gibbs sampler; Total variation distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013046742     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020700515208     Document Type: Article

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