A Method for efficiently sampling from distributions with correlated dimensions

Psychological Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 368-384

  Turner, Brandon M ^a   Sederberg, Per B ^b   Brown, Scott D ^c   Steyvers, Mark ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Hierarchical Bayesian estimation; Linear ballistic accumulator model; Optimal transition kernel; Response time

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 84883829687     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032222     Document Type: Article

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