This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Keyword Search Criteria: Metropolis-Hastings returned 5 record(s)
Monday, 08/02/2010
Estimation of the Term Structure from a DSGE Model
Siddhartha Chib, Washington University in St. Louis
3:20 PM

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
The Polya Tree Sampler: Towards Efficient and Automatic Independent Metropolis Proposals
Alejandro Jara, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Timothy Edward Hanson, University of Minnesota; Joao Monteiro, University of Minnesota
8:35 AM

Regenerative Simulation for Variable-at-a-Time Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms
Ronald Charles Neath, Baruch College, CUNY; Galin L. Jones, University of Minnesota
10:35 AM

A Metropolis-Hastings--Based Method for Sampling from the G-Wishart Conjugate Prior in Gaussian Graphical Models
Nicholas Mitsakakis, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Helene Massam, York University; Michael Escobar, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
11:20 AM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Combining Principal Component Analysis with Parameter Line Searches to Construct Well-Designed Proposal Distributions for Metropolis-Hastings MCMC
David Andrew Kennedy, The University of Chicago; Vanja Dukic, The University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, The University of Chicago
9:35 AM




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