Abstract
Chaining, in combination with adaptive importance sampling, can provide an effective technique for the numerical evaluation of high-dimensional integrals in the context of a posterior analysis. In many statistical problems ways of applying chaining can be found which depend heavily on the structure of the problem. In this paper we consider a very general method of implementing chaining for arbitrary integrals. Also, we show that chaining can be applied to solve global optimization problems and prove several generalizations of a theorem of Pincus.
Citation
M. Evans. "Chaining Via Annealing." Ann. Statist. 19 (1) 382 - 393, March, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176347989
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