Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and estimation in Mata

Stata Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 623-661

  Baker, Matthew J ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Amcmc(); Amcmc_*(); Bayesian estimation; Bayesmixedlogit; Drawing from distributions; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mata; Mcmccqreg; Mixed logit; St0354

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001114538     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: 15368734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1401400309     Document Type: Article

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