Reparameterizing the generalized linear model to accelerate Gibbs sampler convergence

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 129-144

  Nandram, Balgobin ^a   Chen, Ming Hui ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Dirichlet distribution; Latent variable; Multinomial; Potential scale reductions; Proposal density

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030514309     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659608811724     Document Type: Article

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