Sampling from multimodal distributions using tempered transitions.

Radford M. Neal

Published in: Stat. Comput. (1996)

Keyphrases

probability distribution
random sampling
random variables
monte carlo
random samples
multi modal
sample size
highly skewed
multimodal interaction
data sets
probability density
sampled data
sampling strategy
log normal
multimodal data
heavy tailed
importance sampling
support vector machine
case study