Improving ABC for quantile distributions

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1199-1207

  McVinish, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Approximate Bayesian computation; Likelihood free inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Quantile distributions; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867984530     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-010-9209-9     Document Type: Article

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