An analytical study of several markov chain monte carlo estimators of the marginal likelihood

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 839-853

  Yu, Joan Z ^a   Tanner, Martin A ^b  

^a GE Capital Mortgage Corporation   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Gibbs sampler; Gibbs stopper; Importance sampling; Mixture model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033271181     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474852     Document Type: Article

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