Markov chain monte carlo in practice: A roundtable discussion

American Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-100

  Kass, Robert E ^a   Carlin, Bradley P ^b   Gelman, Andrew ^c   Neal, Radford M ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian software; Convergence assessment; Gibbs sampler; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032382838     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480547     Document Type: Article

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