Automating and evaluating reversible jump MCMC proposal distributions

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 409-421

  Fan, Y ^a   Peters, G W ^a   Sisson, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Between model mappings; Density estimation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Path sampling; Reversible jump; Transdimensional MCMC

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450257985     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-008-9101-z     Document Type: Article

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