Connectedness conditions for the convergence of the Gibbs sampler

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-240

  Hobert, J P ^a   Robert, C P ^b   Goutis, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CREST   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arcwise connectedness; Conditional distribution; Ergodicity; Irreducibility; MCMC algorithm; Reparameterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031554145     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00132-0     Document Type: Article

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