312:, Gelfand was able to realize the computational value of replacing expensive numerical techniques with Monte Carlo sampling-based methods in Bayesian inference. Published as Gelfand and Smith (1990), Gelfand described how the Gibbs sampler can be used for Bayesian inference in a computationally efficient manner. Since its publication, the general methods described in Gelfand and Smith (1990) has revolutionized data analysis allowing previously intractable problems to now be tractable. To date, the paper has been cited over 7500 times.
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Gelfand, A. E.; Schmidt, A. M.; Banerjee, S.; Sirmans, C. F. (2004). "Nonstationary multivariate process modeling through spatially varying coregionalization".
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