Output assessment for monte carlo simulations via the score statistic

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 178-206

  Fan, Y ^a   Brooks, S P ^b   Gelman, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence diagnostics; Density estimation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Path sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645580061     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186006X96908     Document Type: Article

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