Efficient calculation of the normalizing constant of the autologistic and related models on the cylinder and lattice

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

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 235-246

  Pettitt, A N ^a   Friel, N ^b   Reeves, R ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autologistic distribution; Gibbs distribution; Ising model; Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling; Path sampling; Potts model; Transition method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141464857     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00383     Document Type: Article

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