Hobert, James P.; Geyer, Charles J. - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 67 (1998) 2, pp. 414-430
We consider fixed scan Gibbs and block Gibbs samplers for a Bayesian hierarchical random effects model with proper conjugate priors. A drift condition given in Meyn and Tweedie (1993, Chapter 15) is used to show that these Markov chains are geometrically ergodic. Showing that a Gibbs sampler is...