Design ideas for Markov chain Monte Carlo software

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-43

  Graves, Todd L ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expressing statistical models; Java; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Updating schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147201454     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186007X179239     Document Type: Article

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