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Introducing Inner Nested Sampling

@article{Erp2017IntroducingIN,
  title={Introducing Inner Nested Sampling},
  author={H. R. Noel van Erp and Ronald. O. Linger and Pieter H. A. J. M. van Gelder},
  journal={arXiv: Methodology},
  year={2017}
}
In this paper we will give a Monte Carlo algorithm by which the moments of a functions of Dirichlet probability distributions can be estimated. This algorithm is called Inner Nested Sampling and is an implementation of Skilling's general Nested Sampling framework. 
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