Improving the acceptance rate of reversible jump MCMC proposals

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 189-198

  Al Awadhi, Fahimah ^a   Hurn, Merrilee ^b   Jennison, Christopher ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Object recognition; Reversible jump MCMC; Stochastic simulation; Tempering

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344653003     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2004.06.025     Document Type: Article

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