Importance Link Function Estimation for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-121

  Maceachern, Steven N ^a   Peruggia, Mario ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Importance sampling; Irreducibility; Transformations; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044517753     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474868     Document Type: Article

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