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An ABC interpretation of the multiple auxiliary variable method

Computation 2016-04-28 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We show that the auxiliary variable method (M{\o}ller et al., 2006; Murray et al., 2006) for inference of Markov random fields can be viewed as an approximate Bayesian computation method for likelihood estimation.

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@article{arxiv.1604.08102,
  title  = {An ABC interpretation of the multiple auxiliary variable method},
  author = {Dennis Prangle and Richard G. Everitt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08102},
  year   = {2016}
}
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