Quantitative convergence assessment for Markov chain Monte Carlo via cusums

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-274

  Brooks, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian model choice; Cumulative sums; Ising model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041939547     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008965613031     Document Type: Article

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