Ensemble samplers with affine invariance

Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-80

  Goodman, Jonathan ^a   Weare, Jonathan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Ensemble samplers; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017381725     PISSN: 15593940     EISSN: 21575452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/camcos.2010.5.65     Document Type: Article

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