Markov chain Monte Carlo and Rao-Blackwellization

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 171-182

  McKeague, Ian W ^a   Wefelmeyer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

62G05; 65C05; Conditioning; Data augmentation; Empirical estimator; Gibbs sampler; Ising model; Metropolis algorithm; Primary: 62M05; Secondary: 62M40

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042916615     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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