Bayesian numerical inference for markovian models. Application to tropical forest dynamics.

Bayesian modelling is fluently employed to assess natural ressources. It is associated with Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) to get an approximation of the distribution law of interest. Hence in such situations it is important to be able to propose N independent realizations of this distribution law. We propose a strategy for making N parallelMonte Carlo Markov Chains interact in order to get an approximation of an independent N-sample of a given target law. In this method each individual chain proposes candidates for all other chains. We prove that the set of interacting chains is itself a MCMC method for the product of N target measures. Compared to independent parallel chains this method is more time consuming, but we show through example that it possesses many advantages. This approach will be applied to a forest dynamic model.

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Source MAMERN'07
Author Campillo, Fabien, F., Rakotozafy, Rivo, R., Rossi, Vivien, V.
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 5, 2026, 09:45 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2026, 09:45 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00999816
Language en
contributor Mathématiques, Informatique et STatistique pour l'Environnement et l'Agronomie (MISTEA) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro)
coverage Grenada, Spain
creator Campillo, Fabien, F.
date 2007-07-11T00:00:00
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