A theory of statistical models for Monte Carlo integration

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

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 585-604

  Kong, A ^a   McCullagh, P ^b   Meng, X L ^c   Nicolae, D ^b   Tan, Z ^b  

^a DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased sampling model; Bridge sampling; Control variate; Exponential family; Generalized inverse; Importance sampling; Invariant measure; Iterative proportional scaling; Log linear model; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Multinomial distrubution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043173938     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00404     Document Type: Article

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