Computational methods for Bayesian model choice
Computation
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
In this note, we shortly survey some recent approaches on the approximation of the Bayes factor used in Bayesian hypothesis testing and in Bayesian model choice. In particular, we reassess importance sampling, harmonic mean sampling, and nested sampling from a unified perspective.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.5123,
title = {Computational methods for Bayesian model choice},
author = {Christian P. Robert and Darren Wraith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5123},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the proceedings of MaxEnt 2009, July 05-10, 2009, to be published by the American Institute of Physics