Monte Carlo methods. Proceedings of the workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 25--29, 1998 (Q1587452)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Berg, Bernd A.}, Introduction to multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations, 1-24 [Zbl 0968.82017] \textit{Bunea, Florentina; Besag, Julian}, MCMC in \(I\times J\times K\) contingency tables, 25-36 [Zbl 0965.65013] \textit{Fill, James Allen; Machida, Motoya; Murdoch, Duncan J.; Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.}, Extension of Fill's perfect rejection sampling algorithm to general chains. (Extended abstract), 37-52 [Zbl 0966.65008] \textit{Jansen, Karl}, Taming zero modes in lattice QCD with the polynomial hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm, 53-63 [Zbl 1032.81031] \textit{Kennedy, A. D.}, Monte Carlo algorithms and non-local actions, 65-83 [Zbl 1031.81667] \textit{Meng, Xiao-Li}, Towards a more general Propp-Wilson algorithm: Multistage backward coupling, 85-93 [Zbl 0965.65008] \textit{Mira, Antonietta; Geyer, Charles J.}, On non-reversible Markov chains, 95-110 [Zbl 0969.60071] \textit{Murdoch, D. J.}, Exact sampling for Bayesian inference: Unbounded state spaces, 111-121 [Zbl 0966.65009] \textit{Roberts, Gareth O.; Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.}, Recent progress on computable bounds and the simple slice sampler, 123-130 [Zbl 0966.65007] \textit{Whittington, Stuart G.}, MCMC methods in statistical mechanics: avoiding quasi-ergodic problems., 131-141 [Zbl 1071.82533] \textit{Wilson, David Bruce}, Layered multishift coupling for use in perfect sampling algorithms (with a primer on CFTP), 143-179 [Zbl 0965.65009] \textit{Ljung, Håkan}, Introduction to semi Markov chain Monte Carlo, 181-191 [Zbl 0965.65010] \textit{Dabrowski, A. R.; Lamothe, G.; McDonald, D. R.}, Accelerated simulation of ATM switching fabrics, 193-205 [Zbl 0965.65011] \textit{Runnalls, Andrew R.}, Some stratagems for the estimation of time series using the Metropolis method, 207-219 [Zbl 0963.65010] \textit{Vrbová, Tereza}, Monte Carlo study of adsorption of interacting self-avoiding walks, 221-228 [Zbl 0967.82011]