Exact sampling from conditional Boolean models with applications to maximum likelihood inference

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 339-353

  Van Lieshout, M N M ^a   Van Zwet, E W ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boolean model; Coupling from the past; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Stochastic approximation EM algorithm; Stochastic EM algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

MINIMUM CONTRAST METHOD;

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA;

EID: 0035359943     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/999188317     Document Type: Article

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