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Control Variates for MCMC

Methodology 2025-11-21 v2 Computation

Abstract

This chapter describes several control variate methods for improving estimates of expectations from MCMC.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.07349,
  title  = {Control Variates for MCMC},
  author = {Leah South and Matthew Sutton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07349},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

To appear in the second edition of the Handbook of MCMC. Associated code available at https://github.com/LeahPrice/CVBookChapter/

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