Nested sampling for Potts models

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 947-954

  Murray, Iain ^a   MacKay, David J C ^b   Ghahramani, Zoubin ^a   Skilling, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Maximum Entropy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN COMPUTATION; GRAPHICAL MODEL; NORMALIZING CONSTANTS; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POTTS MODEL;

EID: 84864048516     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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