University of Warwick. Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology
Abstract
Pairwise interaction point processes with strong interaction are usually difficult to
sample. We discuss how Besag lattice processes can be used in a simulated tempering
MCMC scheme to help with the simulation of such processes. We show how
the N-fold way algorithm can be used to sample the lattice processes efficiently
and introduce the N-fold way algorithm into our simulated tempering scheme. To
calibrate the simulated tempering scheme we use the Wang-Landau algorithm
