subsets are selected using an efficient Probability Proportional-to-Size (PPS) sampling scheme, where the inclusion … applications. We propose a simple way to adaptively choose the sample size m during the MCMC to optimize sampling efficiency for a …

This paper presents the R-package MitISEM (mixture of t by importance sampling weighted expectation maximization) which … optimization procedure is weighted using importance sampling. In the second stage this mixture density is a candidate density for … efficient and robust application of importance sampling or the Metropolis-Hastings (MH) method to estimate properties of the …

Two Bayesian sampling schemes are outlined to estimate a K-state Markov switching model with time-varying transition …. Identification issues are addressed with random permutation sampling. In terms of efficiency, the extension to the difference in … random utility specification in combination with random permutation sampling performs best. We apply the method to estimate a …