Improved estimation of normalizing constants from Markov Chain Monte Carlo output

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 333-351

  De Valpine, Perry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge sampling; Latent variable; Marginal likelihood; Mixture model; Moving block bootstrap; State space

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849106502     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X320258     Document Type: Article

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