Discussion of ``Equi-energy sampler by Kou, Zhou and Wong

DOI10.1214/009053606000000489MaRDI QIDQ449939zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yves F. Atchadé, Jun S. Liu

Publication date 3 September 2012

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611217, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1162567623

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Sampling theory in information and communication theory (94A20)

Abstract: We congratulate Samuel Kou, Qing Zhou and Wing Wong [math.ST/0507080] (referred to subsequently as KZW) for this beautifully written paper, which opens a new direction in Monte Carlo computation. This discussion has two parts. First, we describe a very closely related method, multicanonical sampling (MCS), and report a simulation example that compares the equi-energy (EE) sampler with MCS. Overall, we found the two algorithms to be of comparable efficiency for the simulation problem considered. In the second part, we develop some additional convergence results for the EE sampler.

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