Truncated importance sampling

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 295-311

  Ionides, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Monte Carlo; Sequential Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 46849112625     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X320456     Document Type: Article

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