Efficient interpolation of computationally expensive posterior densities with variable parameter costs

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 636-655

  Bliznyuk, Nikolay ^a   Ruppert, David ^b   Shoemaker, Christine A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian calibration; Computer experiments; Gaussian processes; In verse problems; Markov chain monte carlo; Radial basis functions; Spatio temporal modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053362051     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jcgs.2011.09212     Document Type: Article

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