An ABC interpretation of the multiple auxiliary variable method

04/27/2016
by   Dennis Prangle, et al.
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We show that the auxiliary variable method (Møller 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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