Importance reweighting reduces dependence on temperature in Gibbs samplers: An application to the coseismic geodetic inverse problem

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-20

  Brooks, Benjamin A ^a   Frazer, L Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Coseismic deformation; Earthquake source; Gibbs sampling; Heat bath; Inversion; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; EARTHQUAKE; GEODESY; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

EID: 17744362871     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02573.x     Document Type: Article

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