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Statistica Sinica 9(1999), 699-712



VON MISES TYPE STATISTICS FOR SINGLE SITE

UPDATED LOCAL INTERACTION RANDOM FIELDS


Priscilla E. Greenwood, Ian W. McKeague and Wolfgang Wefelmeyer


University of British Columbia, Florida State University and University of S iegen


Abstract: Random field models in image analysis and spatial statistics usually have local interactions. They can be simulated by Markov chains which update a single site at a time. The updating rules typically condition on only a few neighboring sites. If we want to approximate the expectation of a bounded function, can we make better use of the simulations than through the empirical estimator? We describe symmetrizations of the empirical estimator which are computationally feasible and can lead to considerable variance reduction. The method is reminiscent of the idea behind generalized von Mises statistics. To simplify the exposition, we consider mainly nearest neighbor random fields and the Gibbs sampler.



Key words and phrases: Asymptotic relative efficiency, Gibbs sampler, Ising model, Markov chain Monte Carlo, Metropolis algorithm, parallel updating, variance reduction.



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