Explaining the perfect sampler

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 299-305

  Casella, George ^a   Lavine, Michael ^b   Robert, Christian P ^c  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Anatomy   (France)

Author keywords

Coupling from the past; Fill's algorithm; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035643568     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001753272240     Document Type: Article

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