Mcmc control spreadsheets for exponential mixture estimation?

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 298-317

  Gruet, Marie Anne ^a   Philppe, Anne ^b   Robert, Christian P ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Allocation map; Central limit theorem; Convergence control; Gibbs sampler; Normality test; Reversible jump; Sub sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033441527     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474815     Document Type: Article

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