A geometric approach to transdimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 469-482

  Petris, Giovanni ^a   Tardella, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multimodel inference; Regeneration; Transdimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642294171     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315857     Document Type: Article

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