Mode jumping proposals in MCMC

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 205-223

  Tjelmeland, Håkon ^a   Hegstad, Bjørn Kaåre ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis hastings; Multi model distributions; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529549     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00232     Document Type: Article

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