Convergence rates and moments of Markov chains associated with the mean of Dirichlet processes

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-271

  Jarner, S F ^a   Tweedie, R L ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet processes; Geometric and polynomial ergodicity; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Markov chains; Polynomial and logarithmic moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036787555     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(02)00139-4     Document Type: Article

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