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Metropolis Hastings MCMC when the proposal and target have differing support

June 4, 2012
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Metropolis Hastings MCMC when the proposal and target have differing support

Introduction Very often it is desirable to use Metropolis Hastings MCMC for a target distribution which does not have full support (for example, it may correspond to a non-negative random variable), using a proposal distribution which does (for example, a Gaussian random walk proposal). This isn’t a problem at all, but on more than one […]

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