1.Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK ;2.Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Room 6018, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada ;
Abstract:
Statistics and Computing - Simulated tempering is a popular method of allowing MCMC algorithms to move between modes of a multimodal target density $$pi $$. One problem with simulated tempering...