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Zero-Variance Markov chain Monte Carlo

People

 

Mira A.

(Responsible)

Macaluso F.

(Collaborator)

Abstract

The main theme of this proposal is to provide a firm methodological foundation foran efficient and general purpose variancereduction technique for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation. Variancereduction will be achieved by the construction of control variates. The proposed method will be tested on a large class of Bayesian statistical model to check its performance and compare it to existing alternative variance reduction techniques. The contributions of the project are both on the methodological and computational aspects of the method proposed.

Additional information

Start date
01.01.2012
End date
31.12.2013
Duration
24 Months
Funding sources
SNSF
Status
Ended
Category
Swiss National Science Foundation / Project Funding / Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences (Division II)