Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of quantiles

DOI10.1214/14-EJS957zbMath1329.62363arXiv1207.6432MaRDI QIDQ485905

James M. Flegal, Ronald C. Neath, Charles R. Doss, Galin L. Jones

Publication date: 14 January 2015

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6432

zbMATH Keywords

Monte CarloMarkov chaincentral limit theoremquantile estimationregenerationbatch means

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods in Markov chains (60J22) Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05)

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Uses Software

• mcmcse
• Gibbsit

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