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Bayesian inference for Gibbs random fields using composite likelihoods

. Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, page 28:1--28:8. Winter Simulation Conference, (2012)

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Gibbs random fields play an important role in statistics, for example the autologistic model is commonly used to model the spatial distribution of binary variables defined on a lattice. However they are complicated to work with due to an intractability of the likelihood function. It is therefore natural to consider tractable approximations to the likelihood function. Composite likelihoods offer a principled approach to constructing such approximation. The contribution of this paper is to examine the performance of a collection of composite likelihood approximations in the context of Bayesian inference.

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