A Bayesian bootstrap for finite state Markov chains

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1005-1019

  Fuh, Cheng Der ^a   Fan, Tsai Hung ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian bootstrap; Hitting time; Markov chain; Matrix beta distribution; Transition probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642279643     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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