Structured Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-234

  Sargent, Daniel J ^a   Hodges, James S ^b   Carlin, Bradley P ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Convergence acceleration; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical model; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044518019     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474877     Document Type: Article

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