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Monte Carlo methods
... distribution. Monte Carlo methods are sampling algorithms that allow to com- pute these integrals numerically when they are not analytically ...common Monte Carlo algorithms, among which ...
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Nonlinear applications of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
... Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice, chapter Hypothesis testing and Model Selection, pages 163–188.. [practical markov chain monte carlo]: Comment: One long run with diagnostics: Implem[r] ...
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Speculative moves : multithreading Markov Chain Monte Carlo programs
... (M C) 3 differs from our work in that communication between chains is infre- quent, thus the chains can be executed across networked computers. The aims are also very different - (M C) 3 increases the mixing of the ...
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Stochastic simulation and spatial statistics of large datasets using parallel computing
... and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are discussed from a parallel computing perspective as ...Single chain MCMC methods are also examined and improved upon to give faster ...
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Stability and examples of some approximate MCMC algorithms
... about Markov chains in general state spaces and the introduction of the Metropolis- Hastings ...sequential Monte Carlo methods, which will become relevant when dealing with intractabil- ...
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Metabolic characteristics and genomic epidemiology of Escherichia coli serogroup O145 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Markov cluster Markov Chain Monte Carlo Minute Millilitres Multi-locus sequence typing Multiplex polymerase chain reaction Modified tryptone soya broth Nanogram Nanomolar Polymerase chai[r] ...
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Particle Gibbs with Ancestor Sampling
... Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo (PMCMC) is a systematic way of combining the two main tools used for Monte Carlo statistical inference: sequential Monte Carlo ...
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo to Study the Estimation of the Coefficient of Variation
... apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques to tackle this problem, which allows us to construct the credible ...Finally, Monte Carlo simulations are performed to observe ...
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Principled Selection of Hyperparameters in the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model
... Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a well known topic model that is often used to make inference regarding the properties of collections of text documents. LDA is a hierarchical Bayesian model, and involves a prior ...
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On the containment condition for adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms
... adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for multidimensional target distributions, in particular Adaptive Metropo- lis and Adaptive ...
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Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
... P(θ|D) ∝ P(D|θ)P(θ). (1) In principle Equation 1 defines the posterior prob- ability of any value of θ, but computing this may not be tractable analytically or numerically. For this reason a variety of methods have been ...
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Probabilistic Prognostics and Health Management for Fatigue-critical Components using High-fidelity Models.
... The last two chapters have presented the multi-decade progression of the field of PHM. Born out of reliability analysis and the concept of condition-based maintenance, the PHM methodology – that is, the use of in-situ, ...
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Accelerating Markov chain Monte Carlo via parallel predictive prefetching
... thors start with a reversible unbiased random walk on a one-dimensional finite lattice and then make two copies of the state space, one ‘upstairs’ for transitions to the ‘right’ and one ‘downstairs’ for transitions to ...
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Bayesian System Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems using a Fast MCMC Algorithm
... of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) ...ergodic Markov chain whose stationary distri- bution is equal to P ( θ |D, M) such that, once the chain has converged, it can be used ...
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Bayesian Estimation Using MCMC Approach Based on Progressive First-Failure Censoring from Generalized Pareto Distribution
... and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques to compute the credible intervals and bootstrap confidence intervals of the unknown parameters of Lomax distribution under the progressive ...
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Hand Pose Estimation Using Deep Stereovision and Markov-chain Monte Carlo
... Hand pose is emerging as an important interface for human-computer interaction. The problem of hand pose estimation from passive stereo inputs has received less attention in the literature compared to active depth ...
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Reversible jump MCMC for nonparametric drift estimation for diffusion processes
... a Markov chain Monte Carlo algo- rithm is devised and implemented to sample from the posterior distribution of the drift function of a continuously or discretely observed one-dimensional ...
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Some remarks on sampling methods in Molecular Dynamics
... naive Monte-Carlo methods are inefficient, in particular when the dimension of the system ...increases. Markov Chain Monte-Carlo techniques have been found to be particularly ...
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Comparison of the Bayesian Methods on Interval Censored Data for Weibull Distribution
... and Markov Chain Monte Carlo, where the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm used to estimate the scale and shape parameters, the mean squared errors (MSE) for each method were calculated using ...
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MCMC Technique to Study the Bayesian Estimation using Record Values from the Lomax Distribution
... F(x) = 1 − β α (x + β) −α , x ≥ 0, α, β > 0, (2) where β is the scale parameter and α is the shape parameter. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, give a brief description of Markov ...
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