Advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo methods : learning from past samples /

This book provides comprehensive coverage of simulation of complex systems using Monte Carlo methods. Developing algorithms that are immune to the local trap problem has long been considered as the most important topic in MCMC research. Various advanced MCMC algorithms which address this problem hav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liang, F. (Faming), 1970-
Other Authors: Carroll, Raymond J., Liu, Chuanhai, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2010.
Series:Wiley online library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book provides comprehensive coverage of simulation of complex systems using Monte Carlo methods. Developing algorithms that are immune to the local trap problem has long been considered as the most important topic in MCMC research. Various advanced MCMC algorithms which address this problem have been developed include, the modified Gibbs sampler, the methods based on auxiliary variables and the methods making use of past samples. The focus of this book is on the algorithms that make use of past samples. This book includes the multicanonical algorithm, dynamic weighting, dynamically weighted importance sampling, the Wang-Landau algorithm, equal energy sampler, stochastic approximation Monte Carlo, adaptive MCMC algorithms, conjugate gradient Monte Carlo, adaptive direction sampling, the sampling Metropolis-Hasting algorithm and the multiplica sampler.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0470669721
0470748265 (Cloth)
6612661569
9780470669723
9780470748268 (Cloth)
9786612661563
DOI:10.1002/9780470669723