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A brief tutorial on transformation based Markov Chain Monte Carlo and optimal scaling of the additive transformation

We consider the recently introduced Transformation-based Markov Chain Monte Carlo (TMCMC) (Stat. Methodol. 16 (2014) 100–116), a methodology that is designed to update all the parameters ...
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Characterizations of Random Variables Whose Transformations Have Prescribed Densities

Roberts and Geisser, Roberts, and Block have discussed characterizations of random variables certain functions of which have a prescribed distribution. Their results are simplified, unified, and ...