Estimating Bayes factors via thermodynamic integration and population MCMC

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2009.07.025zbMath1453.62055MaRDI QIDQ961894

Ben Calderhead, Mark A. Girolami

Publication date: 1 April 2010

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/34589/1/34589.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

62F15: Bayesian inference

65C40: Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains

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Uses Software

• BioBayes

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