An effective simulated annealing refined replica exchange Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for the infectious disease model of H1N1 influenza pandemic

World Journal of Modelling and Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-39

  Zhang, Jiapu ^a,b  

^a Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Markov chain; Metropolis hastings sampling; Monte carlo; Replica exchange; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551702635     PISSN: 17467233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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