PHASE RANDOMIZATION: A CONVERGENCE DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR MCMC
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian <html_ent glyph="@amp;" ascii="&"/> New Zealand Journal of Statistics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1369-1473,1467-842X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842x.2005.00396.x