Diagnostic tools for approximate Bayesian computation using the coverage property

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-329

  Prangle, D ^a   Blum, M G B ^b   Popovic, G ^c   Sisson, S A ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Likelihood free inference; Model inference; Parameter inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908082009     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anzs.12087     Document Type: Article

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