Explaining the gibbs sampler

American Statistician

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 167-174

  Casella, George ^a   George, Edward I ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Markov chains; Monte Carlo methods; Resampling techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937730674     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1992.10475878     Document Type: Article

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