Likelihood and non-parametric Bayesian MCMC inference for spatial point processes based on perfect simulation and path sampling

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 549-564

  Berthelsen, Kasper K ^a   Møller, Jesper ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coupling from the past (CFTP); Exact simulation; Likelihood inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multiscale process; Non parametric Bayesian smoothing; Pairwise interaction point process; Path sampling; Simulation based inference; Strauss process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041360504     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00348     Document Type: Article

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