Hobert, J. P.; Robert, C. P.; Goutis, C. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 33 (1997) 3, pp. 235-240
This paper extends Besag's (1994) identifiability conditions to propose convergence conditions for the Gibbs sampler that are independent of the selected version of the conditional distributions. Moreover, we show that the support of the joint distribution must be connected if the Gibbs sampler...