Analysis of the Gibbs sampler for a model related to James-Stein estimators

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 269-275

  Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convergence rate; Gibbs sampler; James Stein estimator; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444459448     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00140871     Document Type: Article

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