Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Bauwens, L. Author-Name-Last: Bauwens Author-Name-First: Luc Author-Person: pba4 Author-Name: Bos, C.S. Author-Name-Last: Bos Author-Name-First: Charles Author-Person: pbo94 Author-Name: van Dijk, H.K. Author-Name-Last: van Dijk Author-Name-First: Herman Author-Person: pva325 Author-Name: van Oest, R.D. Author-Name-Last: van Oest Author-Name-First: Rutger Title: Explaining Adaptive Radial-Based Direction Sampling Abstract: In this short paper we summarize the computational steps of Adaptive Radial-Based Direction Sampling (ARDS), which can be used for Bayesian analysis of ill behaved target densities. We consider one simulation experiment in order to illustrate the good performance of ARDS relative to the independence chain MH algorithm and importance sampling. Creation-Date: 2003-08-07 File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/1045/ei200337.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Series: RePEc:ems:eureir Number: EI 2003-37 Keywords: Markov Chain Monte Carlo, importance sampling, radial coordinates Handle: RePEc:ems:eureir:1045