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February 1996 On the convergence of the Markov chain simulation method
Krishna B. Athreya, Hani Doss, Jayaram Sethuraman
Ann. Statist. 24(1): 69-100 (February 1996). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1033066200

Abstract

The Markov chain simulation method has been successfully used in many problems, including some that arise in Bayesian statistics. We give a self-contained proof of the convergence of this method in general state spaces under conditions that are easy to verify.

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Krishna B. Athreya. Hani Doss. Jayaram Sethuraman. "On the convergence of the Markov chain simulation method." Ann. Statist. 24 (1) 69 - 100, February 1996. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1033066200

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Published: February 1996
First available in Project Euclid: 26 September 2002

zbMATH: 0860.60057
MathSciNet: MR1389881
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1033066200

Subjects:
Primary: 60J05
Secondary: 60B10 , 65U05

Keywords: Calculation of posterior distributions , ergodic theorem , successive substitution sampling

Rights: Copyright © 1996 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.24 • No. 1 • February 1996
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