Bayesian inference for circular distributions with unknown normalising constants

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4179-4192

  Bhattacharya, Sourabh ^a   SenGupta, Ashis ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Circular statistics; Importance sampling; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Umbrella sampling; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249213904     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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