Bayesian synthetic likelihood (BSL; Price, Drovandi, Lee, and Nott 2018) is a popular
method for estimating the parameter posterior distribution for complex statistical models
and stochastic processes that possess a computationally intractable…
The stochastic block model is a popular probabilistic model for random graphs. It is
commonly used to cluster network data by aggregating nodes that share similar connectivity patterns into blocks. When fitting a stochastic block model to a…