Properties of nested sampling

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 741-755

  Chopin, Nicolas ^a   Robert, Christian P ^b  

^a CREST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Evidence; Importance sampling; Marginal likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Nested sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955861158     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asq021     Document Type: Article

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