Tuning tempered transitions

DOI10.1007/s11222-010-9206-zzbMath1322.62008arXiv1010.0842OpenAlexW3099713778WikidataQ60585332 ScholiaQ60585332MaRDI QIDQ746180

Nial Friel, Gundula Behrens, Merrilee A. Hurn

Publication date: 16 October 2015

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0842

zbMATH Keywords

thermodynamic integrationMarkov chain Monte Carlomultimodalitytempering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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