Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation by pre-fetching

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 246-261

  Brockwell, A E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Inference; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645560014     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186006X100579     Document Type: Article

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