Reconstructing the energy landscape of a distribution from Monte Carlo samples

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1307-1331

  Zhou, Qing ^a   Wong, Wing Hung ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Change point; Cluster tree; Connected component; Disconnectivity graph; Monte Carlo; Posterior distribution; Sequence segmentation; Sublevel set

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249096889     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS196     Document Type: Article

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