Independence structure of natural conjugate densities to exponential families and the Gibbs' sampler

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-127

  Piccioni, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conjugate densities; Exponential families; Gibbs' sampler; Hyper Markov laws; Iterative proportional fitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034340793     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00182     Document Type: Article

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