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A comparative study of Monte Carlo methods for efficient evaluation of marginal likelihoods

Auteur(s)
Ardia, David 
Institut d'analyse financière 
Basturk, Nalan
Hoogerheide, Lennart
Van Dijk, Herman
Date de parution
2012
In
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Vol.
11
No
56
De la page
3398
A la page
3414
Revu par les pairs
1
Mots-clés
  • Marginal likelihood
  • Bayes factor
  • Importance sampling
  • Bridge sampling
  • Adaptive mixture of Student-tt distributions
  • Marginal likelihood

  • Bayes factor

  • Importance sampling

  • Bridge sampling

  • Adaptive mixture of S...

Résumé
Strategic choices for efficient and accurate evaluation of marginal likelihoods by means of Monte Carlo simulation methods are studied for the case of highly non-elliptical posterior distributions. A comparative analysis is presented of possible advantages and limitations of different simulation techniques; of possible choices of candidate distributions and choices of target or warped target distributions; and finally of numerical standard errors. The importance of a robust and flexible estimation strategy is demonstrated where the complete posterior distribution is explored. Given an appropriately yet quickly tuned adaptive candidate, straightforward importance sampling provides a computationally efficient estimator of the marginal likelihood (and a reliable and easily computed corresponding numerical standard error) in the cases investigated, which include a non-linear regression model and a mixture GARCH model. Warping the posterior density can lead to a further gain in efficiency, but it is more important that the posterior kernel be appropriately wrapped by the candidate distribution than that it is warped.
Lié au projet
Bayesian estimation of regime-switching GARCH models 
Identifiants
https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/24506
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10.1016/j.csda.2010.09.001
Type de publication
journal article
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 main article: 1-s2.0-S0167947310003440-main.pdf (2.05 MB)
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