Exact sampling from a continuous state space

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 483-502

  Murdoch, D J ^b   Green, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coupling from the past; Gamma coupling; Gibbs sampling; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings; Perfect simulation; Rejection sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363044     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00116     Document Type: Article

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