Marginal likelihood from the metropolis–hastings output

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 453, 2001, Pages 270-281

  Chib, Siddhartha ^a   Jeliazkov, Ivan ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Bayesian model comparison; Clustered count data; Correlated binary data; Local invariance; Local reversibility; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Multivariate density estimation; Reduced conditional density

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842715143     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501750332848     Document Type: Article

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