Random weight particle filtering of continuous-time processes.

Fearnhead, Paul and Papaspiliopoulos, Omiros and Roberts, Gareth O. and Stuart, Andrew (2010) Random weight particle filtering of continuous-time processes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 72 (4). pp. 497-512. ISSN 1369-7412

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Abstract

It is possible to implement importance sampling, and particle filter algorithms, where the importance sampling weight is random. Such random-weight algorithms have been shown to be efficient for inference for a class of diffusion models, as they enable inference without any (time discretization) approximation of the underlying diffusion model. One difficulty of implementing such random-weight algorithms is the requirement to have weights that are positive with probability 1. We show how Wald's identity for martingales can be used to ensure positive weights. We apply this idea to analysis of diffusion models from high frequency data. For a class of diffusion models we show how to implement a particle filter, which uses all the information in the data, but whose computational cost is independent of the frequency of the data. We use the Wald identity to implement a random-weight particle filter for these models which avoids time discretization error.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology)
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? * diffusions* exact simulation* gaussian process* integrated processes* negative importance weights* poisson estimator* sequential monte carlo methodsstatistics and probabilitystatistics, probability and uncertaintyqa mathematics ??
ID Code:
34058
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Deposited On:
25 Aug 2010 07:59
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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