Convergence of slice sampler Markov chains

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

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 643-660

  Roberts, Gareth O ^a   Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Auxiliary variables; Foster Lyapunov drift condition; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Slice sampler

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039425350     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00198     Document Type: Article

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