Estimating Bayes factors via thermodynamic integration and population MCMC

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4028-4045

  Calderhead, Ben ^a   Girolami, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES FACTOR; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; COMPLEX PROCESSES; COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGY; DISCRETE FORM; DISCRETISATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HARMONIC MEAN; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; MODEL COMPARISON; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; RESEARCH AREAS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION; THERMODYNAMIC INTEGRATION METHODS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOLOGY; ESTIMATION; MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 69449098014     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.07.025     Document Type: Article

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