Multilevel particle filters: normalizing constant estimation

Autor: Kengo Kamatani, Ajay Jasra, Prince Peprah Osei, Yan Zhou
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Statistics and Computing. 28:47-60
ISSN: 1573-1375
0960-3174
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-016-9715-5
Popis: In this article we introduce two new estimates of the normalizing constant (or marginal likelihood) for partially observed diffusion (POD) processes, with discrete observations. One estimate is biased but non-negative and the other is unbiased but not almost surely non-negative. Our method uses the multilevel particle filter of Jasra et al (2015). We show that, under assumptions, for Euler discretized PODs and a given $\varepsilon>0$. in order to obtain a mean square error (MSE) of $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^2)$ one requires a work of $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-2.5})$ for our new estimates versus a standard particle filter that requires a work of $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-3})$. Our theoretical results are supported by numerical simulations.
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1510.04977
Databáze: OpenAIRE