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Dominating occupancy processes by the independent site approximation
Ross McVinish
Occupancy processes are a broad class of discrete time Markov chains on encompassing models from diverse areas. This model is compared to a collection of independ…
Fast approximate simulation of finite long-range spin systems
Ross McVinish, Liam Hodgkinson
Tau leaping is a popular method for performing fast approximate simulation of certain continuous time Markov chain models typically found in chemistry and biochemistry. This method…
Normal approximations for discrete-time occupancy processes
Liam Hodgkinson, Ross McVinish, Philip K. Pollett
We study normal approximations for a class of discrete-time occupancy processes, namely, Markov chains with transition kernels of product Bernoulli form. This class encompasses num…
What causes the increase in aggregation as a parasite moves up a food chain?
R. J. G. Lester, R. McVinish
General laws in ecological parasitology are scarce. Here we evaluate data published by over 100 authors to determine whether the number of hosts in a life cycle is associated with…
A metapopulation model with Markovian landscape dynamics
R. McVinish, P. K. Pollett, Y. S. Chan
We study a variant of Hanski's incidence function model that allows habitat patch characteristics to vary over time following a Markov process. The widely studied case where patche…
Issues in designing hybrid algorithms
Jeong Lee, Kerrie Mengersen, Christian Robert +1
In the Bayesian community, an ongoing imperative is to develop efficient algorithms. An appealing approach is to form a hybrid algorithm by combining ideas from competing existing…