Sequential Monte Carlo without Likelihoods
粒子濾波不用似然函數的情況下
本文摘要:Recent new methods in Bayesian simulation have provided ways of evaluating posterior distributions
in the presence of analytically or computationally intractable likelihood functions.
Despite representing a substantial methodological advance, existing methods based on rejection
sampling or Markov chain Monte Carlo can be highly inefficient, and accordingly
require far more iterations than may be practical to implement. Here we propose a sequential
Monte Carlo sampler that convincingly overcomes these inefficiencies. We demonstrate
its implementation through an epidemiological study of the transmission rate of tuberculosis.
