Diffusive nested sampling

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 649-656

  Brewer, Brendon J ^a   Pártay, Livia B ^b   Csányi, Gábor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian computation; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Nested sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051472308     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-010-9198-8     Document Type: Article

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