Adaptive mixture importance sampling

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-259

  Raghavan, Nandini ^a   Cox, Dennis ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Importance sampling; Mixture distributions; Monte Carlo simulation; Nor parametric curve inference; Stratified sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347038966     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659808811890     Document Type: Article

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