Perfect simulation of conditionally specified models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 251-264

  Møller, Jesper ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coupling from the past; Exact simulation; Gibbs sampling; Locally specified exponential family distributions; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474280     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00175     Document Type: Article

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