Efficient Bayes factor estimation from the reversible jump output

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-52

  Bartolucci, Francesco ^a   Scaccia, Luisa ^b   Mira, Antonietta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACERATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian model choice; Bridge sampling; Marginal likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Reversible jump

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644967739     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.1.41     Document Type: Article

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