Gaussian autoregressive proposal reversible with respect to a standard normal distribution

ID: gaussian-autoregressive-proposal-reversible-with-respect-to-a-standard-normal-distribution

Let , let , and propose
The proposal distribution is . If independently of , then is a jointly multivariate normal distribution invariant under exchanging and , because both random vectors have covariance matrix and their cross-covariance matrices are both . Consequently its density satisfies
where is the standard-normal density. Thus the proposal is reversible with respect to the standard normal distribution.

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