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Particle-based likelihood inference in partially observed diffusion processes using generalised Poisson estimators

Olsson, Jimmy LU and Ströjby, Jonas LU (2011) In Electronic Journal of Statistics 5. p.1090-1122
Abstract
This paper concerns the use of the expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm for inference in partially observed diffusion processes. In this context, a well known problem is that all except a few diffusion processes lack closed-form expressions of the transition densities. Thus, in order to estimate efficiently the EM intermediate quantity we construct, using novel techniques for unbiased estimation of diffusion transition densities, a random weight fixed-lag auxiliary particle smoother, which avoids the well known problem of particle trajectory degeneracy in the smoothing mode. The estimator is justified theoretically and demonstrated on a simulated example.
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Auxiliary particle filter, EM algorithm, exact algorithm, generalised, Poisson estimator, partially observed diffusion process, sequential, Monte Carlo
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Electronic Journal of Statistics
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5
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1090 - 1122
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Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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1935-7524
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10.1214/11-EJS632
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English
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  pages        = {{1090--1122}},
  publisher    = {{Institute of Mathematical Statistics}},
  series       = {{Electronic Journal of Statistics}},
  title        = {{Particle-based likelihood inference in partially observed diffusion processes using generalised Poisson estimators}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-EJS632}},
  doi          = {{10.1214/11-EJS632}},
  volume       = {{5}},
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