Warp bridge sampling

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 552-586

  Meng, Xiao Li ^a   Schilling, Stephen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factors; Latent variables; Likelihood ratio; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mixture; Normalizing constants; Orthogonal group; Orthogonal transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036749890     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186002457     Document Type: Article

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