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Towards Automatic Model Comparison: An Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Approach

dc.creatorZhou, Yan
dc.creatorJohansen, Adam M
dc.creatorAston, John Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-24T23:26:25Z
dc.date.available2015-06-22T11:03:56Z
dc.date.available2018-11-24T23:26:25Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-17
dc.identifierhttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/248606
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.aust.edu.ng/xmlui/handle/123456789/3824
dc.description.abstractModel comparison for the purposes of selection, averaging and validation is a problem found throughout statistics. Within the Bayesian paradigm, these problems all require the calculation of the posterior probabilities of models within a particular class. Substantial progress has been made in recent years, but difficulties remain in the implementation of existing schemes. This paper presents adaptive sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) sampling strategies to characterise the posterior distribution of a collection of models, as well as the parameters of those models. Both a simple product estimator and a combination of SMC and a path sampling estimator are considered and existing theoretical results are extended to include the path sampling variant. A novel approach to the automatic specification of distributions within SMC algorithms is presented and shown to outperform the state of the art in this area. The performance of the proposed strategies is demonstrated via an extensive empirical study. Comparisons with state of the art algorithms show that the proposed algorithms are always competitive, and often substantially superior to alternative techniques, at equal computational cost and considerably less application-specific implementation effort.
dc.languageen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisherJournal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
dc.subjectAdaptive Monte Carlo algorithms
dc.subjectBayesian model comparison
dc.subjectNormalising constants
dc.subjectPath sampling
dc.subjectThermodynamic integration
dc.titleTowards Automatic Model Comparison: An Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Approach
dc.typeArticle


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