Bayesian Inference in the Presence of Intractable Normalizing Functions

DOI10.1080/01621459.2018.1448824zbMath1402.62046arXiv1701.06619OpenAlexW2581158580MaRDI QIDQ4559715

Murali Haran, Jaewoo Park

Publication date: 4 December 2018

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06619

zbMATH Keywords

importance samplingMarkov chain Monte Carloexponential random graph modelsMarkov point processesdoubly intractable distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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Uses Software

• R
• ergm
• Rcpp
• ergm.graphlets

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