@article{Hara:Hodg:Carl:2003, author = {Haran, Murali and Hodges, James S. and Carlin, Bradley P.}, title = {Accelerating computation in {M}arkov random field models for spatial data via structured {MCMC}}, year = {2003}, journal = {Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics}, volume = {12}, pages = {249--264}, keywords = {Blocking; Convergence acceleration; Disease mapping; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical model; Hierarchical centering; Metropolis-Hastings algorithm; Reparameterization} }