Forward Simulation Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Applications to Stochastic Epidemic Models

DOI10.1111/sjos.12111zbMath1376.62086OpenAlexW1576493401MaRDI QIDQ5251483

Peter Neal, Chien Lin Terry Huang

Publication date: 20 May 2015

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjos.12111

zbMATH Keywords

importance samplingMarkov chain Monte Carloapproximate Bayesian computationbirth-death-mutation modelnon-centred parameterizationSIR and SIS epidemic models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods in Markov chains (60J22) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Lyapunov and storage functions (93D30)

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