Instability, Sensitivity, and Degeneracy of Discrete Exponential Families
- 1 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 106 (496) , 1361-1370
- https://doi.org/10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10747
Abstract
A number of discrete exponential family models for dependent data, first and foremost relational data, have turned out to be near-degenerate and problematic in terms of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MC...Keywords
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