A Stable Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic for Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Practitioners of Bayesian statistics often use Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers to sample from a posterior distribution. This package determines whether the MCMC sample is large enough to yield reliable estimates of the target distribution. In particular, this calculates a Gelman-Rubin convergence diagnostic using stable and consistent estimators of Monte Carlo variance. Additionally, this uses the connection between an MCMC sample's effective sample size and the Gelman-Rubin diagnostic to produce a threshold for terminating MCMC simulation. Finally, this informs the user whether enough samples have been collected and (if necessary) estimates the number of samples needed for a desired level of accuracy. The theory underlying these methods can be found in "Revisiting the Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic" by Vats and Knudson (2018) .


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install.packages("stableGR")

1.2 by Christina Knudson, 4 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/stableGR


Authors: Christina Knudson [aut, cre] , Dootika Vats [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports mvtnorm

Depends on mcmcse


Imported by qbld.


See at CRAN