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Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation Volume 87, 2017 - Issue 13: Special Issue: Selected Papers from 2016 International Simulation Multi-Conference, October 2016, Beijing, China
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MCMC diagnostics for higher dimensions using Kullback Leibler divergence

Anand DixitDepartment of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Vivekananda RoyDepartment of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Pages 2622-2638 | Received 15 Jun 2016, Accepted 23 May 2017, Published online: 05 Jun 2017

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