A different construction of Gaussian fields from Markov chains: Dirichlet covariances

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 863-878

  Diaconis, Persi ^a   Evans, Steven N ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet form; Markov process; Negative correlation; Potential theory; Random field; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036846474     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0246-0203(02)01123-8     Document Type: Article

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