Contributed discussion on article by Pratola [Comment on "M.T. Pratola, Efficient metropolis-hastings proposal mechanisms for Bayesian regression tre…

2016

Contains fulltext : 161650.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) The author should be commended for his outstanding contribution to the literature on Bayesian regression tree models. The author introduces three innovative sampling approaches which allow for efficient traversal of the model space. In this response, we add a fourth alternative. 3 p.