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Measurement errors and scaling relations in astrophysics: a review
S. Andreon, M. A. Hurn
This review article considers some of the most common methods used in astronomy for regressing one quantity against another in order to estimate the model parameters or to predict…
Improving power posterior estimation of statistical evidence
Nial Friel, Merrilee Hurn, Jason Wyse
The statistical evidence (or marginal likelihood) is a key quantity in Bayesian statistics, allowing one to assess the probability of the data given the model under investigation.…
Classification of molecular sequence data using Bayesian phylogenetic mixture models
Elisa Loza-Reyes, Merrilee Hurn, Tony Robinson
Rate variation among the sites of a molecular sequence is commonly found in applications of phylogenetic inference. Several approaches exist to account for this feature but they do…
Tuning Tempered Transitions
Gundula Behrens, Nial Friel, Merrilee Hurn
The method of tempered transitions was proposed by Neal (1996) for tackling the difficulties arising when using Markov chain Monte Carlo to sample from multimodal distributions. In…