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- Start chain at
with some initial value;
Set s=0; - Propose
from
; - Evaluate
for each
by integration; - Accept
with probability
then
else
; - Repeat step 2 through 4 for
and
; - s = s+1;
The integration in the algorithm is evaluated three times per
sweep, and this is critical to the speed of the sampler.
Evaluation of
is not always necessary and is greatly
simplified as demonstrated in the appendix in
Section
.
Cathal Walsh
Sat Jan 22 17:09:53 GMT 2000