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Multilevel Metropolis-Hastings

Multilevel Metropolis-Hastings applies the Metropolis-Hastings MCMC algorithm to hierarchical (multilevel) Bayesian models, sampling jointly from group-level parameters and hyperparameters by proposing candidate values and accepting or rejecting them via a ratio that respects the full joint posterior across all levels of the model.

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Sources

  1. Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., Dunson, D. B., Vehtari, A. & Rubin, D. B. (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis (3rd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1439840955
  2. Roberts, G. O. & Sahu, S. K. (1997). Updating schemes, correlation structure, blocking and parameterisation for the Gibbs sampler. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 59(2), 291-317. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00070

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