A case study in non-centering for data augmentation: Stochastic epidemics

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 315-327

  Neal, Peter ^a   Roberts, Gareth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bernoulli random graphs; Data augmentation; Non centered and partially non centered MCMC algorithms; Stochastic epidemic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644434878     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-005-4074-7     Document Type: Article

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