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Bayesian Parameter Inference for Partially Observed SDEs driven by Fractional Brownian Motion

Computation 2022-11-02 v1 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis Methodology

Abstract

In this paper we consider Bayesian parameter inference for partially observed fractional Brownian motion (fBM) models. The approach we follow is to time-discretize the hidden process and then to design Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms to sample from the posterior density on the parameters given data. We rely on a novel representation of the time discretization, which seeks to sample from an approximation of the posterior and then corrects via importance sampling; the approximation reduces the time (in terms of total observation time T) by O(T). This method is extended by using a multilevel MCMC method which can reduce the computational cost to achieve a given mean square error (MSE) versus using a single time discretization. Our methods are illustrated on simulated and real data.

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@article{arxiv.2211.00296,
  title  = {Bayesian Parameter Inference for Partially Observed SDEs driven by Fractional Brownian Motion},
  author = {Mohamed Maama and Ajay Jasra and Hernando Ombao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00296},
  year   = {2022}
}
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