Part A Simulation and Statistical Programming HT 2015 Problem Sheet 3 due Week 7 Tuesday 10am 1. (a) Give a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to sample according to the Gamma probability density function, p(x) ∝ xα−1 ex

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Date: 2015-02-23 13:52:48 Computational statistics Probability and statistics Markov models Markov processes Metropolis–Hastings algorithm Markov chain Gibbs sampling Itō diffusion Bayesian inference in phylogeny Statistics Monte Carlo methods Markov chain Monte Carlo		Part A Simulation and Statistical Programming HT 2015 Problem Sheet 3 due Week 7 Tuesday 10am 1. (a) Give a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to sample according to the Gamma probability density function, p(x) ∝ xα−1 ex Add to Reading List Source URL: www.stats.ox.ac.uk Download Document from Source Website File Size: 116,69 KB Share Document on Facebook

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