William McMullen (1861-1898) was one of the original residents of Itasca State Park. In 1898 he was shot and killed by fellow Itasca resident Nelson Rust during an illegal hunting trip in the park. Though Rust was acquitted of charges of manslaughter, the incident incited a feud between McMullen's supporters and Rust family members that lasted u...
Creator:
Bell Museum of Natural History
Contributor:
Roberts, Thomas Sadler, 1858-1946 (Photographer)
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
In the first part of the talk, I will describe randomize-then-optimize (RTO), which has typically been used as an optimization-based proposal mechanism for the Metropolis-Hastings (MH) method. The resulting MCMC algorithm, which I denote by RTO-MH, is effective for sampling the distributed parameters in many nonlinear, Bayesian inverse problems....
Creator:
Bardsley, John (University of Montana)
Created:
2017-09-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.