Bayesian Inference in the Presence of Intractable Normalizing Functions
含难以计算的归一化函数时的贝叶斯推断
Models with intractable normalizing functions arise frequently in statistics. Common examples of such models include exponential random graph models for social networks and Markov point processes for ecology and disease modeling. Inference for these models is complicated because the normalizing functions of their probability distributions include the parameters of interest. In Bayesian analysis, they result in so-called doubly intractable posterior distributions which pose…