Stochastic modelling of ecological processes using hybrid Gibbs samplers

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 40-52

  Walker, David M ^a   Pérez Barbería, F Javier ^b   Marion, Glenn ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Gibbs and Metropolis Hastings sampling; Inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Parameter estimation; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AGENT-BASED MODELS; GIBBS AND METROPOLIS-HASTINGS SAMPLING; INFERENCE; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; STOCHASTIC MODELING;

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33748168884     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.04.008     Document Type: Article

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