Warp Bridge Sampling
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
- Vol. 11 (3) , 552-586
- https://doi.org/10.1198/106186002457
Abstract
Bridge sampling, a general formulation of the acceptance ratio method in physics for computing free-energy difference, is an effective Monte Carlo method for computing normalizing constants of prob...Keywords
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