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Posterior Distribution Approximation

Posterior Distribution Approximation is a computational method in Bayesian statistics that approximates the posterior distribution of model parameters by constructing a tractable probability distribution closest to the true posterior under a specified divergence measure.

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Inference from Iterative Simulation Using Multiple Sequences

Andrew Gelman, Donald B. Rubin · Statistical Science · 1992 · 16.7K citations · Full text

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An Analysis of Transformations

George E. P. Box, David R. Cox · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) · 1964 · 15.1K citations

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The Calculation of Posterior Distributions by Data Augmentation

Martin A. Tanner, Wing Hung Wong · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1987 · 3.8K citations

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Approximate Bayesian Computation in Population Genetics

Mark Beaumont, Wenyang Zhang, David J. Balding · Genetics · 2002 · 3.1K citations

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Multitarget bayes filtering via first-order multitarget moments

Ronald Mahler · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 2003 · 2.2K citations

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  1. CP
    Christian P. Robert

    Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, France

    15 publications · 2K citations

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  2. DB
    David B. Dunson

    Duke University, United States

    12 publications · 639 citations

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  3. AV
    Aki Vehtari

    Aalto University, Finland

    12 publications · 446 citations

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  4. MI
    Michael I. Jordan

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    11 publications · 2.8K citations

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    John Geweke

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    10 publications · 1.1K citations

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  1. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    23 h-index

    57 publications

    7K citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    22 h-index

    44 publications

    14.5K citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    22 h-index

    47 publications

    7.7K citations

  4. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    43 publications

    4.1K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    20 h-index

    49 publications

    1.9K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    51 publications

    3.2K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    62 publications

    1.7K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    19 h-index

    50 publications

    9.1K citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 157 publications · 9.2K citations

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  2. Journal of the American Statistical Association

    67 publications · 13.9K citations

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  3. The Annals of Statistics

    34 publications · 3.1K citations

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  4. Biometrika

    28 publications · 3.1K citations

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  5. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

    JCGS · 30 publications · 3K citations

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