Convergence analysis of the Gibbs sampler for Bayesian general linear mixed models with improper priors

DOI10.1214/12-AOS1052zbMath1296.60204arXiv1111.3210MaRDI QIDQ741808

James P. Hobert, Jorge Carlos Román

Publication date: 15 September 2014

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3210

zbMATH Keywords

Monte CarloMarkov chainconvergence rategeometric ergodicityposterior proprietygeometric drift condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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