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Parallelization of a Common Changepoint Detection Method

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Parallelization of a Common Changepoint Detection Method. / Tickle, Sam; Eckley, Idris; Fearnhead, Paul et al.
In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 29, No. 1, 01.04.2020, p. 149-161.

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Tickle S, Eckley I, Fearnhead P, Haynes K. Parallelization of a Common Changepoint Detection Method. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 2020 Apr 1;29(1):149-161. Epub 2019 Sept 6. doi: 10.1080/10618600.2019.1647216

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Tickle, Sam ; Eckley, Idris ; Fearnhead, Paul et al. / Parallelization of a Common Changepoint Detection Method. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 2020 ; Vol. 29, No. 1. pp. 149-161.

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