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Regenerative Markov Chain Monte Carlo for any distribution.

Journal Article · · Communications in Statistics, Part B: Simulation and Computation
While Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are frequently used for difficult calculations in a wide range of scientific disciplines, they suffer from a serious limitation: their samples are not independent and identically distributed. Consequently, estimates of expectations are biased if the initial value of the chain is not drawn from the target distribution. Regenerative simulation provides an elegant solution to this problem. In this article, we propose a simple regenerative MCMC algorithm to generate variates for any distribution
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Sponsoring Organization:
SC
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1047434
Report Number(s):
ANL/BIO/JA-66161
Journal Information:
Communications in Statistics, Part B: Simulation and Computation, Journal Name: Communications in Statistics, Part B: Simulation and Computation Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 41; ISSN 0361-0918
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH

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