Constructing summary statistics for approximate Bayesian computation: Semi-automatic approximate Bayesian computation

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 419-474

  Fearnhead, Paul ^a   Prangle, Dennis ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indirect inference; Likelihood free inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Simulation; Stochastic kinetic networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861111043     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01010.x     Document Type: Article

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