A Bound on the Rate of Convergence for the Discrete Gibbs Sampler
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
- Vol. 9 (2), 211-215
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269964800003806
Abstract
We give a computable bound on the rate of convergence of the occupation measure for the Gibbs sampler to the stationary distribution.Keywords
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