Hypothesis tests of convergence in markov chain monte carlo?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-108

  Canty, Angelo J ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convergence diagnostic; Gibbs sampler; Nonparametric test; Permutation test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033245236     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474803     Document Type: Article

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