Distributed evolutionary Monte Carlo for Bayesian computing

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 688-697

  Hu, Bo ^a   Tsui, Kam Wah ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA EXAMPLES; DISTRIBUTED GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC OPERATORS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATIONARY DISTRIBUTION; TARGET FUNCTIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TARGETS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 70549107421     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.10.025     Document Type: Article

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