General methods for monitoring convergence of iterative simulations)?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 434-455

  Brooks, Stephen P ^a   Gelman, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convergence diagnosis; Inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032273615     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1998.10474787     Document Type: Article

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