Perfect samplers for mixtures of distributions

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

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 777-790

  Casella, G ^a   Mengersen, K L ^b   Robert, C P ^c,d   Titterington, D M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CREST   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling; Gibbs sampling; Marginalization; Monotonicity; Slice sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036436452     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00360     Document Type: Article

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