Markov chain monte carlo: An introduction for epidemiologists

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 627-634

  Hamra, Ghassan ^a   MacLehose, Richard ^b   Richardson, David ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILIARITY; MARKOV CHAIN; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOCORRELATION PLOT; BAYES THEOREM; DENSITY PLOT; GIBBS SAMPLER ALGORITHM; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METROPOLIS HASTINGS ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRACE PLOTS;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 84877070627     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt043     Document Type: Article

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