The Monte Carlo Newton-Raphson algorithm

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-250

  Kuk, Anthony Y C ^a   Cheng, Yuk W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Gibbs sampling; Incomplete data; Random effects; Rejective sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031288214     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949657708811858     Document Type: Article

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