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Improving the acceptance rate of reversible jump MCMC proposals

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  • Al-Awadhi, Fahimah
  • Hurn, Merrilee
  • Jennison, Christopher

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Recent articles have commented on the difficulty of proposing efficient reversible jump moves within MCMC. We suggest a new way to make proposals more acceptable using a secondary Markov chain to modify proposed moves--at little extra programming cost.

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  • Al-Awadhi, Fahimah & Hurn, Merrilee & Jennison, Christopher, 2004. "Improving the acceptance rate of reversible jump MCMC proposals," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 69(2), pages 189-198, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:69:y:2004:i:2:p:189-198
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