Markov Chain Monte Carlo Convergence Assessment via Two-Way Analysis of Variance

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 266-285

  Brooks, S P ^a   Giudici, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Bayesian model choice; Finite mixture models; Graphical models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Run length determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950032551     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474880     Document Type: Article

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