Subregion-Adaptive Integration of Functions Having a Dominant Peak

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 92-111

  Genz, Alan ^a   Kass, Robert E ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian computation; Importance sampling; Monte Carlo; Multiple integrals; Numerical quadrature; Split t distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031286813     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1997.10474729     Document Type: Article

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