Convergence controls for MCMC algorithms, with applications to hidden Markov chains

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-355

  Robert, Christian P ^a,b,c   RydÉn, Tobias ^a,b,c   Titterington, D M ^a,b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CREST   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocation; Backward formula; Kolmogorov Smirnov tests; Mixture model; Normality test; Spearman independence test; Stationarity; Subsampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033236612     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659908811984     Document Type: Article

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