Posterior Sampling When the Normalizing Constant is Unknown
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0361-0918,1532-4141
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2011.555042