Inference for Deterministic Simulation Models: The Bayesian Melding Approach

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 452, 2000, Pages 1244-1255

  Poole, David ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Borel paradox; Logarithmic pooling; Population dynamics model; Sampling importance resampling algorithm; Whales

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293846     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474324     Document Type: Article

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