Miscellanea an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo method for distributions with intractable normalising constants

Biometrika

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 451-458

  Moller J ^a   Pettitt, A N ^b   Reeves, R ^b   Berthelsen, K K ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variable method; Ising model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Normalising constant; Partition function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745612435     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/93.2.451     Document Type: Article

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